None are so fallible as those who are sure they're right.

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

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

Every writer, by the way he uses the language, reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacities, his bias....Avoid the elaborate, the pretentious, the coy, and the cute. Do not be tempted by a twenty-dollar word when there is a ten-center handy, ready and able.

A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

It is worse to be irresolute than to be wrong.

Rich, ornate prose is hard to digest, generally unwholesome, and sometimes nauseating.