The rule is to carry as little as possible.
The coward wants resolution, which the brave man can do without. He recognizes no faith above a creed, thinking this straw by which he is moored does him good service, because his sheet anchor does not drag.
The sun is but a morning star.
Simplify, simplify, simplify.
The faultfinder will find faults even in paradise.
A journal is a repository for all those fragmentary ideas and odd scraps of information that might otherwise be lost and which some day might lead to more "harmonious compositions."