Look for all fancy wordings and get rid of themAvoid all terms and expressions, old or new, that embody affectation.

To delve into history entails, besides the grievance of hard work, the danger that in the depths one may lose one’s scapegoats.

In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.

Simple English is no one’s mother tongue. It has to be worked for.

no subject of study is more important than reading…all other intellectual powers depend on it.

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams.

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.