More writing quotations

["Chet W. Cady" <cady -at- OCLC -dot- ORG>]

By Samuel Johnson:

        Read over your composition, and wherever you meet
        with a passage which you think is particularly fine,
        strike it out.

        No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

By Sydney Smith:

       In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through
       every other word you have written; you have no idea
       what vigor it will give your style.