Talks on Talking (Paperback)

Excerpt: ...or ignorance. It comes through long education. It does not mean the trite, or the commonplace, or the obvious. It is a strong and sturdy quality, is this simplicity of which I am speaking, and nothing else will atone for lack of it in the public speaker. Longfellow calls it the supreme excellence, since it is the quality which above all others brings serenity to the soul and makes life Pg 80 really worth living. Every man should earnestly seek to cultivate this great quality as essential to noble character. This speech is conspicuous for another indispensable quality for effective public speaking,