It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong

Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for read more

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

His speech was a fine sample, on the whole,
Of rhetoric, which the learn'd call "rigmarole."

His speech was a fine sample, on the whole,
Of rhetoric, which the learn'd call "rigmarole."

I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you

I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you

That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious.
[Fr., Tout ce qu'on dit de trop est fade read more

That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious.
[Fr., Tout ce qu'on dit de trop est fade et rebutant.]

But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do:
for they think that they shall be read more

But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do:
for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak
agreeably to him with whom we deal is more read more

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak
agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good
words or in good order.

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel