Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
Facts are the enemy of truth.