One man excels in eloquence, another in arms.

My wife has been my greatest earthly inspiration. She excels in eloquence, the poetry of words, empathy and graciousness.

— George W. Romney

Though a man excels in everything, unless he has been a lover his life is lonely, and he may be likened to a jewelled…

— Yoshida Kenko

Do you see a man who excels in his work? He will stand before kings; he will not stand before unknown men

— Bible

A man who excels in creating new things is the one who is good at dreaming when not sleeping.

— Khem Veasna

In the faculty of speech man excels the brute; but if thou utterest what is improper, the brute is they superior.

— Saadi

“Arma virumque cano…." *Literally: "I sing of arms and man". __I sing the praises of a man's stuggles__”

— Virgil

Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“What is called eloquence in the forum is commonly found to be rhetoric in the study.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Forensics is eloquence and reduction.

— Gertrude Stein

“Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Among all the valuable things of this world, the word is the most precious. For in the word one can find a light which…

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

[T]here are, at bottom, basically two ways to order social affairs, Coercively, through the mechanisms of the state - what we can call political…

— Ed Crane

Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things!

— Michel de Montaigne

There should be in eloquence that which is pleasing and that which is real; but that which is pleasing should itself be real.

— Blaise Pascal