The jewels of sorrow last forever - James Thurber

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.

Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counseling rather than a collaborating task. The tendency of the writer-editor to collaborate is natural, but he should say to himself, "How can I help this writer to say it better in his own style?" and avoid "How can I show him how I would write it, if it were my piece?"