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

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

For brevity is very good,
Where we are, or are not understood.

For brevity is very good,
Where we are, or are not understood.

O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good
things? for out of the abundance of the read more

O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good
things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth
speaketh.

Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did
their fathers to the false read more

Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did
their fathers to the false prophets.

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 speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your
flesh: for as ye have yielded read more

I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your
flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to
uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your
members servants to righteousness unto holiness.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.

The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.

Miss not the discourse of the elders.

Miss not the discourse of the elders.