When you catch an adjective, kill it - perhaps the best possible advice for budding writers.

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

I like the truth sometimes, but I don't care enough for it to hanker after it.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

A marriage. . .will give a new gladness to the sunshine, a new fragrance to the flowers, a new beauty to the earth, and a new mystery to life.

I respect a man who knows how to spell a word more than one way.