There is a certain majesty in plainness; as the proclamation of a prince
never frisks it in tropes or fine conceits, in numerous and well-turned
periods, but commands in sober natural expressions.--_South._
In the present day our literary masonry is well done, but our
architecture is poor.--_Joubert._
Perhaps that is nearly the perfection of good writing which is original,
but whose truth alone prevents the reader from suspecting that it is so;
and which effects that for knowledge which the lense effects for the
sunbeam, when it condenses its brightness in order to increase its
force.--_Colton._