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  2. A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

  3. Abstruse questions must have abstruse answers.

  4. After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

  5. All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred incaptivity.

  6. All the sounds of the earth are like music.

  7. And music lifted up the listening spirit Until it walked, exempt from mortal care, Godlike, o'er the clear billows of sweet sound.

  8. And the night shall be filled with music And the cares, that infest the day, Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.

  9. As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.

 10. As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.

 11. As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so it is of small wits to talk much and say nothing.

 12. Austerity of speech consists in speaking truthfully and beneficially and in avoiding speech that offends.

 13. Each time a new soul descends in the ocean of the manifested realm...it generates a vibration which is communicated to the entire cosmic ocean... Each creature and every so-called thing (one should say being) is a crystallization of a part of this symphony of vibrations. Thus we are like a sound petrified in solid matter and which continues indefinitely to resound in this matter... and the word became flesh.

 14. Eloquence - The art of saying things in such a way that those to whom we speak may listen to them with pleasure.

 15. Eloquence consists in making the speech comprehensible to the multitude and agreeable to the learned.

 16. Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

 17. Eloquence is the poetry of prose.

 18. Eloquence is to the sublime what the part is to the whole.

 19. God sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness and of mirth, That they might touch the hearts of men, And bring them back to heaven again.

 20. He is an eloquent man who can treat humble subjects with delicacy, lofty things impressively, and moderate things temperately.

 21. He who sings frightens away his ills.

 22. He who wants to persuade should put his trust, not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.

 23. Hear much; speak little.

 24. Her ivory hands on the ivory keys Strayed in a fitful fantasy Like the silver gleam when the poplar trees Rustle their pale leaves listlessly Or the drifting foam of a restless sea When the waves show their teeth on the flying breeze.

 25. How sour sweet music is When time is broke and no proportion kept! So is it in the music of men's lives.

 26. In general those who have nothing to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it.

 27. In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.

 28. In oratory, the greatest art is to conceal art.

 29. It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well, nor judgment to hold their tongues.

 30. It is never so difficult to speak as when we are ashamed of our silence.

 31. It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, motion to excite it, and it brightens as it burns.

 32. Man has great power of speech, but the greater part thereof is empty and deceitful. The animals have little, but that little is useful and true; and better is a small and certain thing than a great falsehood.

 33. Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.

 34. Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

 35. Music can noble hints impart, engender fury, kindle love, with unsuspected eloquence can move and manage all the man with secret art.

 36. Music hath charms to soothe a savage beast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. I've read that things inanimate have moved, And as with living souls have been informed By magic numbers and persuasive sound.

 37. Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.

 38. Music is the art of the prophets, the only art that can calm the agitations of the soul...

 39. Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world...

 40. Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings.

 41. Music is the poetry of the air.

 42. Music is the shorthand of emotion.

 43. Music is the universal language of mankind.

 44. Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

 45. Music once admitted to the soul becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies; it wanders perturbedly thorough the halls and galleries of the memory, and is often heard again, distinct and living as when it first displaced the wavelets of the air.

 46. Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.

 47. Music resembles poetry: In each are nameless graces which no methods teach And which a master-hand alone can reach.

 48. Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

 49. Music was a thing of the soul - a rose-lipped shell that murmured the eternal sea - a strange bird singing the songs of another shore.

 50. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

 51. Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.

 52. One dog barks at a shadow...A hundred bark at his sound.

 53. One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears-by listening to them.

 54. Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk.

 55. Our sweetest songs are those which tell of saddest thought.

 56. Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... On much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.

 57. So she poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit.

 58. Speak briefly and to the point.

 59. Speak clearly if you speak at all; carve every word before you let if fall.

 60. Speak only at the proper place and time, After having given due consideration. If you utter elegant sayings too often, Even they lose their value.

 61. Speech is but broken light upon the depth Of the unspoken.

 62. Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel.

 63. Speech is silvern, silence is golden; speech is human, silence is divine.

 64. Speech was divided into four parts that the inspired priests know. Three parts, hidden in deep secret, humans do not stir into action; the fourth part of Speech is what men speak.

 65. Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.

 66. Talkative people who wish to be loved are hated; when they desire to please, they bore; when they think they are admired, they are laughed at; they injure their friends, benefit their enemies, and ruin themselves.

 67. Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

 68. Talking is a disease of age.

 69. Talking is like playing on the harp; there is as much in laying the hands on the strings to stop their vibrations as in twanging them to bring out their music.

 70. That rich celestial music thrilled the air From hosts on hosts of shining ones, who thronged Eastward and westward, making bright the night.

 71. The flowering moments of the mind Drop half their petals in our speech.

 72. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

 73. The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.

 74. The music that can deepest reach, And cure all ill, is cordial speech.

 75. The object of oratory is not truth but persuasion.

 76. The secret of being tiresome is in telling everything.

 77. The spoken discourse may roll on strongly as the great tidal wave; but, like the wave, it dies at last feebly on the sands. It is heard by few, remembered by still fewer, and fades away, like an echo in the mountains, leaving no token of power. It is the written human speech, that gave power and permanence to human thought.

 78. The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.

 79. The talkative listen to no one, for they are ever speaking. - And the first evil that attends those who know not how to be silent, is, that they hear nothing.

 80. The tenor's voice is spoilt by affectation, And for the bass, the beast can only bellow; In fact, he had no singing education, An ignorant, noteless, timeless, tuneless fellow.

 81. The tongue is but three inches long, yet it can kill a man six feet high.

 82. The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood.

 83. The voice is nothing but beaten air.

 84. The voice is the flower of beauty.

 85. The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroke the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.

 86. The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

 87. There is however, a true music of Nature - the song of the birds, the whisper of leaves, the ripple of waters upon a sandy shore, the wail of wind or sea.

 88. There is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion.

 89. There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

 90. There is no index of character so sure as the voice.

 91. There's music in the sighing of a reed; There's music in the gushing of a rill; There's music in all things, if men had ears: Their earth is but an echo of the spheres.

 92. They never taste who always drink; They always talk who never think.

 93. Thou, man, alone canst speak. Wonder at thy glorious prerogative; and pay to Him who gave it to thee a rational and welcome praise, teaching thy children wisdom, instructing the offspring of thy loins in piety.

 94. Tones that sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

 95. True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.

 96. We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less.

 97. What the orators lack in depth, they give you in length.

 98. Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

 99. When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.

100. When the sun and the moon are set and the fire has sunk down, what is then the light of man? Voice then becomes his light; and by the voice as his light he rests, goes forth, does his work and returns. Therefore in truth when a man cannot see even his own hand, if he hears a voice after that he wends his way.

101. When thunder comes it relieves the tension and promotes positive action. Music can do the same by making people enthusiastic and united together. When used to promote good it brings them closer to heaven.

102. When you talk, you repeat what you already know; when you listen, you often learn something.

103. Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.

104. Without music life would be a mistake.