Quotes on Speaking Well

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

In the greatest difficulties, in the heaviest trials, in the deepest poverty and necessities, He has never failed me; but because I was enabled by His grace to trust Him He has always appeared for my help. I delight in speaking well of His name.

The lie is so vile, that even if it were in speaking well of godly things, it would take off something from God's grace; and Truth is so excellent, that if it praises but small things they become noble.

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.