Echoes

I would prefer inarticulate wisdom to loquacious foolishness.

To achieve style, begin by affecting none.

The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity.

Well done is better than well said.

Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

Understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself.

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.

Deeds, not words.

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

Although there is no substitute for merit in writing, clarity comes closest to being one.

Good design is long-lasting. It avoids being fashionable and therefore never appears antiquated. Unlike fashionable design, it lasts many years — even in today's throwaway society.

Good design is honest. It does not make a product more innovative, powerful or valuable than it really is. It does not attempt to manipulate the consumer with promises that cannot be kept.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

If you live according to nature, you will never be poor; if you live according to opinion, you will never be rich.

Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language. Use the word not as a means of denial or in antithesis, never as a means of evasion.

Do not seek pleasure for its own sake.

Prefer the specific to the general, the definite to the vague, the concrete to the abstract.

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.

Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.

Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.