All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

Topics: Speech Quotes

There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude...

There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude...

You can kill the body but not the spirit.

You can kill the body but not the spirit.

We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality...

We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality...

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for...

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for...

If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship...

If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship...

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it...

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it...

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on...

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on...

The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and...

The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and...

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not...

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not...

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a...

You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a...

You can kill the body but not the spirit.

You can kill the body but not the spirit.

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence

The cruelest lies are often told in silence

For God's sake, give me the young man who has brains enough to make a...

For God's sake, give me the young man who has brains enough to make a...

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By...

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By...

The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires...

The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires...

I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is...

I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is...