Who wouldn't speak well of him?
Lk. 6:26 Woe to you when all men speak well of you, for so their fathers did to the false prophets.
"At least pretend to like studying, so as not to provoke your father and give him a chance to speak well of you to his friends. "
As the word evolved, it borrowed from the Latin word that means to praise or worship - literally, "to speak well of."
Of the ratio, they said that it “doesn't speak well of intellectual diversity in American law school hiring.
"If you want people to think well of you, do not speak well of yourself."