All his life he has been a reader of the finest prose and poetry, and has cultivated conversation as a fine art.
You may think you are poor and have no chance in life.

You may be situated so that others are dependent upon you, and you may not be able to go to school or college, or to study music or art, as you long to; you may be tied down to an iron environment; you may be tortured with an unsatisfied, disappointed ambition; and yet you can become an interesting talker, because in every sentence you utter you can practise the best form of expression.

Every book you read, every person with whom you converse, who uses good English, can help you.
Few people think very much about how they are going to express themselves.

They use the first words that come to them.

They do not think of forming a sentence so that it will have beauty, brevity, transparency, power.