But if he falls short on the poetic side, there is the counterbalancing advantage that there is never a false note nor an overwrought description which offends our taste and jars upon our sensibilities.
Mr.Webster showed his love of direct simplicity in his style even more than in his thought or the general arrangement and composition of his speeches.

His sentences are, as a rule, short, and therefore pointed and intelligible, but they never become monotonous and harsh, the fault to which brevity is always liable.

On the contrary, they are smooth and flowing, and there is always a sufficient variety of form.

The choice of language is likewise simple.

Mr.Webster was a remorseless critic of his own style, and he had an almost extreme preference for Anglo-Saxon words and a corresponding dislike of Latin derivatives.