First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write
Never explain–your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
It is easier to be critical than correct.