When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair.

Wilbur never forgot Charlotte. Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart. She was in a class by herself. It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both.

The most puzzling thing about TV is the steady advance of the sponsor across the line that has always separated news from promotion, entertainment from merchandising. The advertiser has assumed the role of originator, and the performer has gradually been eased into the role of peddler.

A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.

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

No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader's intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.

The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.