Assembly Quote by David Hume

“the matter is as it is in all other cases: if it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator…

— Plato

“But, without preaching, the truth may surely be borne in mind, that the bustle, and triumph, and laughter, and gaiety which Vanity Fair exhibits…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“For what is more foolish than for a man to study nothing else than how to please himself? To make himself the object of…

— Erasmus

“I sometimes, in my sprightly moments, consider myself, in my great chair at school, as some dictator at the head of a common-wealth. In…

— John Adams

In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself; when consciously he makes himself the mere tongue…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The orator, who may be silent without danger, may praise without difficulty and without reluctance; and posterity will confess that the character of Theodosius…

— Edward Gibbon

In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself; when consciously he makes himself the mere tongue…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“And the pathetic part of it is that frequently those who have the least justification for a feeling of achievement bolster up their egos…

— Dale Carnegie

The beauty to which the Dance ought to aspire

— August Bournonville

“I distrust summaries, any kind of gliding through time, any too great a claim that one is in control of what one recounts; I…

— Harold Brodkey

Man toils, and strives, and wastes his little life to claim-- At last the transient glory of a splendid name, And have, perchance, in…

— Andrew Jackson Downing

Every human action gains in honor, in grace, in all true magnificence, by its regard to things that are to come. It is the…

— John Ruskin