Of its companions; and no more
Is heard than has been felt before,”
by those who endeavor to get at its secrets.
—Hiram Corson, “The Voice and Spiritual Education,” p. 29.
In this same connection let us add what Goethe has said:
Persuasion, friends, comes not by wit nor art,
Hard study never made the matter clearer.
’Tis the live fountain in the speaker’s heart
Sends forth the streams that melt the ravished hearer;
Then work away for life, heap book upon book,