Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

Democrats have to strike where [Bush's] strength is, particularly at a time when he is bleeding.

If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, Sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of 21, little did I suspect that I should be at 49, what I now am.

We know we'll hear a good joke from you when we meet again someday.

When a new book is published, read an old one.