Life seems to be fashioned and formed best out of the obstacles that seem unbearable.
Oratory: the art of making deep noises from the chest sound like important messages from the brain.
He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
Whatever is well said by another is mine.
There has never been a meaningful life built on easy street.
In an easy cause any man may be eloquent.
All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.
If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman he may pronounce as he pleases.
None love to speak so much when the mood of speaking comes as they who are naturally taciturn.
Speak clearly if you speak at all Carve every word before you let it fall.
When a man is asked to make a speech the first thing he has to decide is what to say.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again though it contradict everything you said today.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
Though old the thought and oft exprest 'tis his at last who says it best.
When a man gets talking about himself he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.
To know how to say what others only know how to think is what makes men poets or sages and to dare to say what others only dare to think makes men martyrs or reformers-or both.