“Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity”
“Accentuated plainness and accentuated vice ought to bring about harmony. Beauty lies in harmony, in style, whether it be the harmony of ugliness or beauty, vice or virtue.”
“Whether in music or in fiction, the most basic thing is rhythm. Your style needs to have good, natural, steady rhythm, or people won't keep reading your work.”
“Figure out the rhythm of life and live in harmony with it.”
“Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.”
“In character, in manner, in style, in all the things, the supreme excellence is simplicity”