In my opinion, it was chiefly owing to their deep contemplation in their silent retreats in the days of youth that the old Indian orators acquired the habit of carefully arranging their thoughts.They listened to...

To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.

Good communication has just a little to do with eloquence. It’s character that makes it more successful. Harsh words nicely articulated are sharp enough to kill your brand!

In prayer, God doesn’t want your words, he wants your heart. He doesn’t track your eloquence, he treasures your soul.

The Biblical language was so deeply embedded in the great man’s mind that it became his normal way of speaking.

in prayer, God does want your words, he wants your heart. He doesn’t track your eloquence, he treasures your soul.

There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm

Your goodness must have some edge to it — else it is none.

{When Abraham Lincoln was 26 years old in 1835, he wrote a defense of Thomas Paine’s deism; a political associate, Samuel Hill, burned it to save Lincoln’s political career. Historian Roy Basler, the editor of...

No institution of learning of Ingersoll’s day had courage enough to confer upon him an honorary degree; not only for his own intellectual accomplishments, but also for his influence upon the minds of the learned...

Choose your words meticulously and then let them rumble up from some deep furnace of conviction.

True eloquence is irresistible. It charms by its images of beauty, it enforces an argument by its vehement simplicity. Orators whose speeches are “full of sound and fury, signifying nothing,” only prevail where truth is...

Meaningful prayer is a matter of the heart, not the eloquence of the words.

There is no eloquence without a man behind it.

You must speak straight so that your words may go as sunlight into our hearts.

The truth is the very definition of excellence.

poets. have the toughest jobin the universe-of turning silenceinto eloquence.

[Giordano] Bruno died, despised and suffering, after eight years of agony. From that moment, his works have attracted interest, and he has long been recognized as an important figure in the development of modern thought....

I may be deprived of eloquence, but my mind can never be a dumb.

{Miller, who was president of American Federation of Musicians, had this to say about Robert Ingersoll at his funeral}On behalf of 15,000 professional musicians, comprising the American Federation of Musicians, permit me to extend to...

I’ve just come to my room, Livy darling, I guess this was the memorable night of my life. By George, I never was so stirred since I was born. I heard four speeches which I...

Nam eloquentiam quae admirationem non habet nullam iudico

Surely silence can sometimes be the most eloquent reply.

They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.

You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.

It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns