I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a
thousand pounds.

I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a
thousand pounds.

Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow...

Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow...

Though I say't that should not say't.

Though I say't that should not say't.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye
may know how ye ought to answer read more

Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye
may know how ye ought to answer every man.

His speech was a fine sample, on the whole,
Of rhetoric, which the learn'd call "rigmarole."

His speech was a fine sample, on the whole,
Of rhetoric, which the learn'd call "rigmarole."

Doubtless there are men of great parts that are guilty of
downright bashfulness, that by a strange hesitation and read more

Doubtless there are men of great parts that are guilty of
downright bashfulness, that by a strange hesitation and
reluctance to speak murder the finest and most elegant thoughts
and render the most lively conceptions flat and heavy.

For brevity is very good,
Where we are, or are not understood.

For brevity is very good,
Where we are, or are not understood.

Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did
their fathers to the false read more

Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did
their fathers to the false prophets.