Words are one of our chief means of adjusting to all the situations of life. The better control we have over words, the more successful our adjustment is likely to be.
An honorable man will not be bullied by a hypothesis.
We see what we want to see, and observation conforms to hypothesis.
Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.
There is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
It (the dash ) is a comfortable punctuation mark since even the most rigorous critic can seldom claim that any particular example of it is a misuse. Its overuse is its greatest danger, and the writer who can't resist dashes may be suspected of uncoordinated thinking.