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.'

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.

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.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

Our writing equipment takes part in forming our thoughts.

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