We think you will find yourself taking pencil in hand to underscore choice passages from THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE. Here are a few samples

On the impossibility of separating style from sense:

Young writers often suppose that style is a garnish for the meat of prose a sauce by which a dull dish is made pala table. Style has no such separate entity: it is non-detachable. unhiterable. The approach to style is by way of plain ness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity.

On the infiltration of the language of advertising into English:

"Today, the language of advertising enjoys an enormous circulation.. Your new kitchen range is so revolutionary it obsoletes all other ranges. Your counter top is beautiful. because it is accessorized with gold plated faucets: Your cigarette tastes good like a cigarette should. And like the man says, you will want to try one. You will also, in all probability, want to try writing that way, using that lan guage. You do so at your peril, for it is the language of mutilation."

On the whole duty of a writer:

"Style takes its final shape more from attitudes of mind than from principles of composition, for as an elderly practitioner once remarked, 'Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar." It is now necessary to warn the writer that his concern for the reader must be pure: he must sympathize with the reader's plight (most readers are in trouble about half the time) but never seek to know his wants. The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one. Let him start sniffing the air, or glancing at the Trend Machine, and he is as good as dead, although he may make a nice living."