If any man wishes to write a clear style, let him first be clear in his thoughts.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance. [Ger., Was man in der Jugend wunscht, hat man im Alter die Fulle.]

Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.

It is not enough to have knowledge, one must also apply it. It is not enough to have wishes, one must also accomplish.

If any wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.