Daher nun ist die erste, ja, schon für sich allein beinahe ausreichende Regel des guten Stils diese, dass man etwas zu sagen habe. - Arthur Schopenhauer

To have something to say by itself is virtually a sufficient condition for good style.

If a big diamond is cut up into pieces, it immediately loses its value as a whole; or if an army is scattered or divided into small bodies, it loses all its power; and in the same way a great intellect has no more power than an ordinary one as soon as it is interrupted, disturbed, distracted, or diverted; for its superiority entails that it concentrates all its strength on one point and object, just as a concave mirror concentrates all the rays of light thrown upon it. Noisy interruption prevents this concentration. This is why the most eminent intellects have always been strongly averse to any kind of disturbance, interruption and distraction, and above everything to that violent interruption which is caused by noise; other people do not take any particular notice of this sort of thing.

I have described religion as the metaphysics of the people.