Use the smallest word that does the job.

I’ve got a new friend, all right. But what a gamble friendship is! Charlotte is fierce, brutal, scheming, bloodthirsty—everything I don’t like. How can I learn to like her, even though she is pretty and, of course, clever?

A good many of the special words of business seem designed more to express the user's dreams than to express a precise meaning.

Computing machines perhaps can do the work of a dozen ordinary men, but there is no machine that can do the work of one extraordinary man.

The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.

Understanding humor is like dissecting a live frog. It can be done, but the frog tends to die in the process.

I have just been refining the room in which I sit, yet I sometimes doubt that a writer should refine or improve his workroom by so much as a dictionary: one thing leads to another and the first thing you know he has a stuffed chair and is fast asleep in it.