Famous Quotes / Alford
Alford: "Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer. Be what you say; and, within the rules of prudence, say what you are."
Coarser | Elegance | Finer | Forwardness |
Inferior | Language | Power | Prudence |
Rules | Simplicity | Speak | Straight |
Superiors | Think | Usual | Within |
Write | Your |