Many studies have established the fact that there is a high correlation between vocabulary and intelligence and that the ability to increase one’s vocabulary throughout life is a sure reflection of intellectual progress.

Authors are magpies, echoing each other’s words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.

There is wisdom in the selection of wisdom...

Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.

Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.

The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts.

It (the dash ) is a comfortable punctuation mark since even the most rigorous critic can seldom claim that any particular example of it is a misuse. Its overuse is its greatest danger, and the writer who can't resist dashes may be suspected of uncoordinated thinking.

Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.

Words are one of our chief means of adjusting to all the situations of life. The better control we have over words, the more successful our adjustment is likely to be.

Leadership is more likely to be assumed by the aggressive than by the able, and those who scramble to the top are more often motivated by their own inner torments.