You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.

If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they're happy.

Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.

Benchley and I had an office in the old Life magazine that was so tiny, if it were an inch smaller it would have been adultery.

The ones I like are ‘cheque’ and ‘enclosed.’

If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.

The Swiss are a neat and an industrious people, none of whom is under seventy-five years of age.