The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it.

“What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because…”

“Except for my daughters, I have not grieved for any death as I have grieved for…”

“Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.”

“Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries.”