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

The style is the man.

Style is the dress of thoughts. - Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield,

And, after all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.

Style! style! why, all writers will tell you that it is the very thing which can least of all be changed. A man's style is nearly as much a part of him as his physiognomy, his figure, the throbbing of this pulse,--in short, as any part of his being is at least subjected to the action of the will.

The gloomy comparisons of a disturbed imagination, the melancholy madness of poetry without the inspiration.

Neat, not gaudy.

For style beyond the genius never dares.

Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style. Amaze th' learn'd, and make the learned smile.

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

When Croft's "Life of Dr. Young" was spoken of as a good imitation of Dr. Johnson's style, "No, no," said he, "it is not a good imitation of Johnson; it has all his pomp without his force; it has all the nodosities of the oak, without its strength; it has all the contortions of the sibyl, without the inspiration."

Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.

Obscurity is the realm of error.

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. - Voltaire ,