“The passions are the only orators that always persuade: they are, as it were, a natural art, the rules of which are infallible; and the simplest man with passion is more persuasive than the most eloquent without it.” MenArtPassionNaturalSimplestEloquentInfalliblePersuasiveOratorsOratory Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“It is the doctrine of the popular music-masters, that whoever can speak can sing. So, probably, every man is eloquent once in his life. Our temperaments differ in capacity of heat, or” MenSpeakMastersCapacityEvery ManDoctrineHeatTemperamentEloquenceEloquentPopular Music Book:The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude Source: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude
“He is an eloquent man who can treat humble subjects with delicacy, lofty things impressively, and moderate things temperately.” MenSubjectsTreatsHumbleModeratesEloquenceLoftyEloquentDelicacy Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero