Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
The average person thinks he isn't.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.