Quote o' the Day

"Will felt that the reader was in serious trouble most of the time, a man floundering in a swamp, and that it was the duty of anyone attempting to write English to drain this swamp quickly and get his man up on dry ground, or at least throw him a rope."

E. B. White in "Will Strunk," his New Yorker essay on his former teacher and original author of The Elements of Style

According to Today in Literature, William Strunk, Jr., was born on this day in 1869.