Since the thought of a discourse and the diction unfold for the most part by means of each other, come, let us further consider any matters of expression that are still left. That, then, the choice of fitting and dignified words wonderfully leads and bewitches the audience, and that this is the supreme study of all orators and writers, supplying greatness, beauty, polish, weight, force, and mastery, and shedding the rest of these qualities upon discourse as if upon the most beautiful statues, putting into the matters a kind of speaking soul: this surely it would be superfluous to relate to those who know. Beautiful words are, in very truth, the proper light of thought. §1
Their bulk, however, is not always serviceable, since to apply great and dignified words to small matters would seem the same as if one fastened a great tragic mask upon a baby. But in poetry and in […] (the manuscript here breaks off) … §2