Rewrite and revise. Do not be afraid to seize what you have and cut it to ribbons ... Good writing means good revising.

The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity.

It is worse to be irresolute than to be wrong.

A drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

A dash is a mark of separation stronger than a comma, less formal than a colon, and more relaxed than parentheses.

The adjective hasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place.

The situation is perilous, but there is still one chance of escape.