If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.Ralph Waldo Emerson
One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.Henry David Thoreau
Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.C. S. Lewis