Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information. Auteur: Mark Twain Copy Quote More from Mark Twain “Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us …” “Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be…” “Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over.” “The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”