After all, it is an ancient and valuable right of the English people to turn their nouns into verbs when they are so minded.

Be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid.

Those who are addicted to the phrase "to use a vulgarism" expect to achieve the feat of being at once vulgar and superior to vulgarity.

Any one who wishes to become a good writer should endeavour, before he allows himself to be tempted by the more showy qualities, to be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid.

The writer's Queen Victoria is his public, and he would do well to keep a bust of the old Queen on his desk with the legend "We are not amused" hanging from it.

After all, it is an ancient and valuable right of the English people to turn their nouns into verbs when they are so minded.

Anyone who finds himself putting down several commas close to one another should reflect that he is making himself disagreeable.