As a flower that is lovely and beautiful, but is scentless, even so fruitless is the well-spoken word of one who practices it not.
Speech is reason's brother, and a kingly prerogative of man.
There are so many people, especially among our comrades, who imagine that words are nothing - on the contrary, isn't it true that saying a thing well is as interesting and as difficult as painting it?
Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of a portrait.
Eloquence is the child of knowledge.
