Those who are brought up on such a diet can no more attain to wisdom than a kitchen scullion can attain to a keen sense of smell or avoid stinking of the grease.

With your indulgence, I will speak out: you--teachers -- are chiefly responsible for the decay of oratory.

With your well modulated and empty tones you have so labored for rhetorical effect that the body of your speech has lost its vigor and died.

Young men did not learn set speeches in the days when Sophocles and Euripides were searching for words in which to express themselves.

In the days when Pindar and the nine lyric poets feared to attempt Homeric verse there was no private tutor to stifle budding genius.