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.

Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language.

Rather, very, little, pretty - these are the leeches that infest the pond of prose, sucking the blood of words. The constant use of the adjective little (except to indicate size) is particularly debilitating; we should all try to do a little better, we should all be very watchful of this rule, for it is a rather important one, and we are pretty sure to violate it now and then.

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.

To air one's views gratuitously, is to imply that the demand for them is brisk.