The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
War is evil but it is often the lesser evil.
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence but sets off...
I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food.
