“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.”
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I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.
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.
It is vain for the coward to flee death follows close behind it is only by defying it that the brave escape.