Seize the day, trusting as little as possible in the future.
Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start
While your client is watching for you at the front door, slip out at the back.
Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
In labouring to be brief, I become obscure.
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.