"No stile of writing is so delightful..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.”

“An occasional insurrection will not weigh against the inconveniences of a government of force, such as are monarchies and aristocracies.”

“Every man cannot have his way in all things. If his opinion prevails at some times, he should acquiesce on seeing that of others preponderate at other times. Without this mutual disposition we are disjointed individuals, but not a society.”

“We are often struck by the force and precision of style to which hard-working men, unpracticed in writing, easily attain when required to make the effort. As if plainness and vigor and sincerity, the ornaments of style, were better learned on the farm and in the workshop than in the schools. The sentences written by such rude hands are nervous and tough, like hardened thongs, the sinews of the deer, or the roots of the pine.”

“There is a great deal of busywork to a writer's life, as to a professor's life, a great deal of work that matters only in that, if you don't do it, your desk becomes very full of papers. So, there is a lot of letter answering and a certain amount of speaking, though I try to keep that at a minimum.”

“Do you know, Considering the market, there are more Poems produced than any other thing? No wonder poets sometimes have to seem So much more businesslike than businessmen. Their wares are so much harder to get rid of.”

“So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.”

“A word too much always defeats its purpose.”

“Never use two words when one will do.”