Never call a stomach a tummy without good reason.

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.

...when a sentence is made stronger, it usually becomes shorter. Thus, brevity is a by-product of vigor.

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

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

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