“Use the right word and not its second cousin”
Mark Twain
“It is odd that 'sword' and 'words' have the same letters and even more strange that they have the same effect.”
Brandi Keeler
“The difference between the right word and almost the right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.”
“We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongues, at our peril, risk and hazard.”
Voltaire
“A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razor strap. A thin book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.”
“I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop.”
“Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.”
Charles W. Eliot
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