The writer who cares about usage must always know the quick from the dead.
Scholarship hath no fury like that of a language purist faced with sludge.
My four articles of faith: clarity, simplicity, brevity and humanity.
The secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components.
Nobody ever stopped reading E. B. White or V. S. Pritchett because the writing was too good.
Never say anything in writing that you wouldn't comfortably say in conversation. Be yourself when you write. If you're not a person who says 'indeed' or 'moreover,' or who calls someone an individual ('he's a fine individual'), please don't write it.