The good oxymoron, to define it by a self-illustration, must be a planned inadvertency.

Whenever we can make 25 words do the work of 50, we halve the area in which looseness and disorganization can flourish.

Prose is not necessarily good because it obeys the rules of syntax, but it is fairly certain to be bad if it ignores them.

It is nonetheless the best usage that decides the meaning of words.

The choosing among words is made by every user of the language, and not exclusively by professional speakers and writers.

The good oxymoron, to define it by a self-illustration, must be a planned inadvertency.

No one should ever have to read a sentence twice because of the way it is put together.