I've gone into hundreds of fortune-teller's parlors, and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.
Vigorous writing is concise.
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.