Who cares what a man's style is, so it is intelligible,--as intelligible as his thought. Literally and really, the style is no more than the stylus, the pen he writes with; and it is not worth scraping and polishing, and gilding, unless it will write his thoughts the better for it. It is something for use, and not to look at. The question for us is, not whether Pope had a fine style, wrote with a peacock's feather, but whether he uttered useful thoughts.
Henry David ThoreauIt behooves every man to see that his influence is on the side of justice, and let the courts make their own characters.
Henry David ThoreauI turned my face more exclusively than ever to the woods, where I was better known.
Henry David Thoreau