Quotes about Clarity

Everything comes to light, Nancy, sooner or later. When God Almighty wills it, our secrets are found out.

Mrs. Tulliver had lived thirteen years with her husband, yet she retained in all the freshness of her early married life a facility of saying things which drove him in the opposite direction to the one she desired. Some minds are wonderful for keeping their bloom in this way, as a patriarchal gold-fish apparently retains to the last its youthful illusion that it can swim in a straight line beyond the encircling glass.

for me to help him," said Dorothea, ardently. "You have quite made up your mind, I see. Well, my dear, the fact is, I have a letter for you in my pocket." Mr. Brooke handed the letter to Dorothea, but as she rose to go away, he added, "There is not too much

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot?

We read, indeed, that the walls of Jericho fell down before the sound of trumpets,39 but we nowhere hear that those trumpets were hoarse and feeble. Doubtless they were trumpets that gave forth clear ringing tones, and sent a mighty vibration through brick and mortar. But the oratory of the Rev. Amos resembled rather a Belgian railway-horn, which shows praiseworthy intentions inadequately fulfilled.

One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.

Brevity is justified at once to those who readily understand, and to those who will never understand.

Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep them.

I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark; when high and learned ones do only pierce the air.

Take up, read! Take up, read!