"There is no true orator who is..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”

“The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust.”

“A new degree of intellectual power seems cheap at any price.”

“The greatest and truest models for all oratorsis Demosthenes. One who has not studied deeply and constantly all the great speeches of the great Athenian, is not prepared to speak in public. Only as the constant companion of Demosthenes, Burke, Fox, Canning and Webster, can we hope to become orators.”

“There is nothing like oratory, it is a skill that can turn a commoner into a king.”

“Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.”

“But whoso is heroic must find crises to try his edge. Human virtue demands her champions and martyrs, and the trial of persecution always proceeds.”

“Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.”

“One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.”