Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity.

Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.

One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.

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.

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind?--They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.