Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
People were still cramming down the stairs, and more were squeezing past the turnstiles and down the escalators onto the platforms, but it was clear to me that this wasn't going to have a happy ending.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.