The article is from Aug of 2015. Why post it now?
I referenced this article as a prelude to the passage I used in my comment. Marden, who was friend of the greats (Emerson, Holmes, et al.), highlights the simple language as a traits of great men and minds.
In case you read only the title and date, I included this quote in the comment section on the article. It’s from a friend of some of the greatest writers and thinkers:
“Conciseness, brevity of expression are characteristic of a great mind. Weak people use twice as many words as strong people. General Grant was a man of few words. Lincoln could put a great proposition into a brief sentence. Read the eighty lines of his Gettysburg speech. Not a single word could be eliminated without crippling the thought. It has the conciseness of condensation. Great minds have ever been simple in their language and concise in their expression.”
-Orison Swett Marden (Hints for Young Writers. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell Publishers, 1914; pp. 59-60)