One has to dismount from an idea, and get into the saddle again, at every parenthesis.

In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.

Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

The most important things must be said simply, for they are spoiled by bombast; whereas trivial things must be described grandly, for they are supported only by aptness of expression, tone and manner.

A good style should show no sign of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident.

Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.

When we see a natural style, we are astonished and delighted; for we expected to see an author, and we find a man.

Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.

Style is a magic wand, and turns everything to gold that it touches.

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