So when I wrote to her boss, I included this: “When I get to be rich, I’m going to hire someone like your assistant — to protect me from people like me. She was helpful, friendly, feisty vs. boring and yet guarded access to you like a loyal pit bull. If she doesn’t know how valuable she is to you, you are making a big managerial mistake and YOU should know better.”

Cameron Neylon

But as this vista opens up, we also have to make choices.

We live in an exciting time

let his manner of living be an eloquent sermon in itself

For men of quick intellect and glowing temperament find it easier to become eloquent by reading and listening to eloquent speakers than by following rules for eloquence.

would exercise the pupils under his care in the reading of history and even still more in that of speeches,

Examples are either (a) historical parallels, or (b) invented parallels, viz. either (a) illustrations or (b) fables, such as those of Aesop.

Every one who effects persuasion through proof does in fact use either enthymemes or examples: there is no other way.

The "example" has already been described as one kind of induction;