The thoughts he wished to utter must be clothed in the right kind of words arranged in the right way, and he resolved that it should be so.
The way in which men thought and the way in which their thoughts were put in the Bible and the great Elizabethans fascinated him.

That was the way in which he would try to think, and the way in which he would try to put his thoughts.

So he recited the noble passages over and over again, he memorized many of them, and he listened carefully to himself as he spoke them, alike for the sense and the music and power of the words.
It was then perhaps that he formed the great style for which he was so famous in after years.

His vocabulary became remarkable for its range, flexibility and power, and he developed the art of selection.

His rivals even were used to say of him that he always chose the best word.