Style is the art of getting yourself out of the way, not putting yourself in it.
In oratory the will must predominate.
An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.
Never take advice from anyone with no investment in the outcome.
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
You cant get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.