Only by means of such discipline can the young man acquire that physical loathing for the beloved and much-admired elegance of style of our newspaper manufacturers and novelists, and for the ornate style of our literary men.

Culture begins, however, with the correct movement of the language: and once it has properly begun, it begets that physical sensation in the presence of 'elegant' writers which is known by the name of 'loathing.'

Everyone being allowed to learn to read ruins in the long run not only writing but also thinking.

No man ever wrote more eloquently and luminously [than Heraclitus].

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

I am one thing, my writings are another.