It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.

If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.

A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.

The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.

Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come of nothing.

A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.

The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.

The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.

All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master.

Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work.

Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.

Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.

Certainly, nothing can be more simple than monotony.

Poetry operates by raising our curiosity, engaging the mind by degrees to take an interest in the event, keeping that event suspended, and surprising at last with an unexpected catastrophe.

The character of a true men is found out by his amusements.

Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding.

As a preacher of the Gospel, our late venerable Bishop must have been heard, to form an adequate conception of his superior excellence and commanding eloquence.

Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies.

There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.

It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.

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.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.

Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.

Eloquence is the poetry of prose.

The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.

The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.

False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.

True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.

Every idea is an incitement... Eloquence may set fire to reason.

Stunning vistas don't always produce eloquence.

One man excels in eloquence, another in arms.

Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.

Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.

In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary.

Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.

It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

What I am looking for... is an immobile movement, something which would be the equivalent of what is called the eloquence of silence, or what St. John of the Cross, I think it was, described with the term 'mute music'.

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

It was an argument of rare power and eloquence.

Love makes a subtle man out of a crude one, it gives eloquence to the mute, it gives courage the cowardly and makes the idle quick and sharp.

Courage easily finds its own eloquence.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.