As the grace of man is in the mind, so the beauty of the mind is eloquence.
Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.
La vraie e loquence se moque de l'e loquence, la vraie morale se moque de la morale. True eloquence has notime foreloquence, true morality has no time for morality.
There should be in eloquence that which is pleasing and that which is real; but that which is pleasing should itself be real.
A regular council was held with the Indians, who had come in on their ponies, and speeches were made on both sides through an interpreter, quite in the described mode,--the Indians, as usual, having the advantage in point of truth and earnestness, and therefore of eloquence. The most prominent chief was named Little Crow. They were quite dissatisfied with the white man's treatment of them, and probably have reason to be so.
There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation.
The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by telling against ourselves.
Tis base to plead the unhappy prisoner's cause, With eloquence that's bought.
Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information.
Great eloquence we cannot get, except from human genius.
There is no eloquence which does not agitate the soul.
What we need is not more learning, not more eloquence, not more persuasion, not more organization, but more power from the Holy Spirit.
I am not as eloquent as Stephane Dion.
O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast.
Give a wise man an honest brief to plead and his eloquence is no remarkable achievement.
Philosophy will tell you what to say, eloquence will tell you how to say it
And how moving is the eloquence of the untaught when it is the heart that is speaking!
Continuous eloquence wearies.
Great is the power of Eloquence; but never is it so great as when it pleads along with nature, and the culprit is a child strayed from his duty, and returned to it again with tears.
He spoke with more eloquence than wisdom.