True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.—La Rochefoucauld.
True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion.—Webster.
There is as much eloquence in the tone of voice, in the eyes, and in the air of a speaker, as in his choice of words.—La Rochefoucauld.
Employment.—Life will frequently languish, even in the hands of the busy, if they have not some employment subsidiary to that which forms their main pursuit.—Blair.
The rust rots the steel which use preserves.—Lytton.
Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.—Seneca.
The devil does not tempt people whom he finds suitably employed.—Jeremy Taylor.
Employment, which Galen calls "nature's physician," is so essential to human happiness, that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery.—Burton.
Enthusiasm.—Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from the human to the divine.—Emerson.
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.—Beaconsfield.