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.
VoltaireMany are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.
Voltaire