Difficilis optimi perfectio atque absolutio. — Writing style

"Decipimur specie recti; brevis esse laboro, Obscurus fio."

"The words make a fine show, but they have no pith in them."

"Ce qui n’est pas clair, n’est pas Français."

"Mine be the whetstone’s lot Which makes steel sharp, though cut itself will not. Although no writer, I may yet impart To writing folk the precepts of their art."

"Fungar vice cotis, acutum Reddere quæ ferrum valet, exsors ipsa secandi. Munus et officium, nil scribens ipse, docebo."

"The subject of itself is incompatible with an ornamental style, content if it is able to instruct."