And, after all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a g — Style

"All styles are good except the tiresome kind."

"The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work."

"Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable; A vile conceit in pompous words expressd, Is like a clown in regal purple dressd."

"Such labourd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th learnd, and make the learned smile."

"A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author."

"Clearness ornaments profound thoughts."