Proper Expression Quotes

Proper punctuation is both the sign and the cause of clear thinking.

Any one may mouth out a passage with a theatrical cadence, or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts; but to write or speak with propriety and simplicity is a more difficult task. Thus it is easy to affect a pompous style, to use a word twice as big as the thing you want to express; it is not so easy to pitch upon the very word that exactly fits it.

I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar.

When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.

Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.

One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment.

Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable; A vile conceit in pompous words express'd, Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd.