If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing.

Of higher value than any one leader is the cause.

I could get a better education interviewing John Steinbeck than talking to an English professor about novels.

Give your main clause a little space. Prose is not like boxing; the skilled writer deliberately telegraphs his punch, knowing that the reader wants to take the message directly on the chin.

It behooves us to avoid archaisms. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do.

The most successful column is one that causes the reader to throw down the paper in a peak of fit.

One difference between French appeasement and American appeasement is that France pays ransom in cash and gets its hostages back while the United States pays ransom in arms and gets additional hostages taken.