Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.
Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.
Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.
Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art. They seem to be the purpose of God for his whole creation.
By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind.
The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine.
This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice.
One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.