A Feeble Fluency

A word of warning for preachers, politicians, and the personally charming:

"Above all things beware of letting your tongue outrun your brains. Guard against a feeble fluency, a garrulous prosiness, a facility of saying nothing…My brethren, it is a hideous gift to possess, to be able to say nothing at extreme length."

Charles Spurgeon in Lectures to My Students)