Luther quotes

“He [Martin Luther] said that there are many fluent preachers who speak at length but say nothing, who have words without substance. Philip Melanchthon said, 'every age has had such Thasas, for Cicero was reported to have said when he heard [247] an exceptionally loquacious man chatter, “I have never heard anybody say nothing with such authority.”'”  Tabletalk, Lauterbach & Weller, #3637, November 1, 1537,    LW, AE, 54:246-7