Writers who used to show off their erudition no longer sing in the bare ruined choir of the media.

It is in the nature of tyranny to deride the will of the people as the voice of the mob, and to denounce the cry for freedom as the roar of anarchy.

A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable companion.

A dependent clause is like a dependent child: incapable of standing on its own but able to cause a lot of trouble.

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

The first ladyship is the only federal office in which the holder can neither be fired nor impeached.

The trick is to start early in our careers the stress-relieving avocation that we will need later as a mind-exercising final vocation. We can quit a job, but we quit fresh involvement at our mental peril.