Good sentences and good writing

All good writing consists of good sentences properly joined.

– Alonzo Reed and Brainerd Kellogg Higher Lessons in English. A work on English grammar and composition, in which the science of the Language is made tributary to the art of expression. Revised edition, 1896

John Stewart Mill on the sentence

The structure of every sentence is a lesson in logic.

Writing and winning

If you can’t write, you can’t win.

Hon. William D. Stein
California Court of Appeal
First Appellate District
The Recorder (5/21/97) p. 1.

From: “PERSUASIVE LEGAL WRITING” by Daniel U. Smith