In Bright Shadow: C.S. Lewis on the Imagination for Theology and Discipleship

Horace smiled. "Always breakfast like a man condemned. One never knows that a day may bring."

Man is born to trouble. Man is born for trouble. Man is born to battle trouble. Man is born for the fight, to be forged and molded--under torch and hammer and chisel--into a sharper, finer, stronger image of God.

Drink your wine. Laugh from your gut. Burden your moments with thankfulness. Be as empty as you can be when that clock winds down. Spend your life. And if time is a river, may you leave a wake.

Your father died for me, and dying with you would be an honor, though not as great as dying to save you.

Stories are like catechisms, but they're catechisms for your impulses, they're catechisms with flesh on.

When you depart from standard usage, it should be deliberate and not an accidental lapse. Like a poet who breaks the rules of poetry for creative effect, this only works when you know and respect the rule you are breaking. If you have never heard of the rules you are breaking, you have no right to do so, and you are likely to come off like a buffoon or a barbarian. Breaking rules, using slang and archaic language can be effective, but it is just as likely to give you an audience busy with wincing.