clarity
“What is there more mysterious than clarity?”
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
“Pay your sacrifice to the Graces—and to clarity first among the Graces.”
“Clarity is courtesy to the reader.”
“We should write not so that we may be understood, but so that we cannot possibly be misunderstood.”
“We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.”
“Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.”
“I have made this letter longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter.”
“Words are like eyeglasses: they blur everything that they do not make clear.”
“Never cut what you can untie.”