"Indifference to style ... is almost always symptomatic of the dogmatic sclerosis of content."
"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."
"All styles are good except the tiresome kind."
"Style! style! why, all writers will tell you that it is the very thing which can least of all be changed. A mans style is nearly as much a part of him as his physiognomy, his figure, the throbbing of his pulse,—in short, as any part of his being is at least subjected to the action of the will."
"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."