Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Love truth, and pardon error.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.