Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of a style.

'Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.

If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.

But nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches, as to conceive how others can be in want.

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, an…

A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing.

Americans don't like plain talk anymore. Nowadays they like fat talk. Show them a lean, plain word that cuts to the bone and watch them lard it with thick grea…