4 Samuel Johnson Quotes on Clarity

Samuel Johnson quotes on clarity

26. Round numbers are always false.

60. But, perhaps, the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some obvious and useful truth in few words.

139. Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

179. No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had.