The obvious is better than obvious avoidance of 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.

Those who run to long words are mainly the unskillful and tasteless; they confuse pomposity with dignity, flaccidity with ease, and bulk with force.

The obvious is better than obvious avoidance of it.

It need hardly be said that shortness is a merit in words.

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.

We tell our thoughts, like our children, to put on their hats and coats before they go out.