I think the Cincinnati Enquirer must be edited by children.

What is the real function, the essential function, the supreme function, of language? Isn't it merely to convey ideas and emotions? Certainly. Then if we can do it with words of fonetic brevity and compactness, why keep the present cumbersome forms?

The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.

Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.

I never write "metropolis" for seven cents when I can write "city" and get paid the same.

Do good when you can, and charge when you think they will stand it.

Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.