Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.

One great aim of revision is to cut out. In the exuberance of composition it is natural to throw in - as one does in speaking - a number of small words that add nothing to meaning but keep up the flow and rhythm of thought. In writing, not only does this surplusage not add to meaning, it subtracts from it. Read and revise, reread and revise, keeping reading and revising until your text seems adequate to your thought.

Above all, do not talk yourself out of good ideas by trying to expound them at haphazard meetings.

no subject of study is more important than reading…all other intellectual powers depend on it.

The professionals resemble and recognize each other by virtue of the stigmata that their trade has left upon them. They are like the dog in the fable, whose collar has made an indelible mark around his neck. The amateur is the shaggy wolf whom no dog had better trust too far.

Look for all fancy wordings and get rid of themAvoid all terms and expressions, old or new, that embody affectation.

Intellect has nothing to do with equality except to respect it as a sublime convention.