"They are eloquent who can speak low..." - Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Nothing is more praiseworthy, nothing more suited to a great and illustrious man than placability and a merciful disposition.”

“Nothing is difficult in the eyes of a lover.”

“There is not a moment without some duty.”

“The subject is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent.”

“There is something in the eloquence of the pulpit, when it is really eloquence, which is entitled to the highest praise and honour. The preacher who can touch and affect such an heterogeneous mass of hearers, on subjects limited, and long worn thread-bare in all common hands; who can say any thing new or striking, any thing that rouses the attention, without offending the taste, or wearing out the feelings of his hearers, is a man whom one could not (in his public capacity) honour enough.”

“Of all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory. He who enjoys it wields a power more durable than that of a great king. He is an independent force in the world.”

“I do not mean to moralise but to those who do, I would give this advice : if you mean ultimately to deprive the best things and states of all all honour and worth then continue to talk about them as you have been doing!”

“SPAM is taking e-mail, which is a wonderful tool, and exploiting the idea that it's very inexpensive to send mail.”

“I could say much about politics, our only entertainment here, but you would not care a fig about that.”