“In oratory affectation must be avoided; it being better for a man by a native and clear eloquence to express himself than by those words which may smell either of the lamp or inkhorn.” MenMayClearSmellNativeLampsAvoidedEloquenceOratory Author:Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury
“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