It takes less time to learn how to write nobly than how to write lightly and straightforwardly

The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.

It is some fundamental certainty which a noble soul has about itself, something which is not to be sought, is not to be found, and perhaps, also, is not to be lost. The noble soul has reverence for itself.

All I need is a sheet of paper
and something to write with, and then
I can turn the world upside down.

Twofold misjudgement. - The misfortune suffered by clear-minded and easily understood writers is that they are taken for shallow and thus little effort is expended on reading them: and the good fortune that attends the obscure is that the reader toils at them and ascribes to them the pleasure he has in fact gained from his own zeal.

You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.