Wilson Follett quotes:

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

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

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

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

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.