Nobody talks much that doesn't say unwise things-things he did not mean to say; as no person plays much without striking a false note sometimes.

Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.

A man is hid under his tongue.

No glass renders a man's form or likeness so true as his speech.

Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.

Sometimes when we have to speak suddenly we come closer to the truth than when we have time to think.

Babies and language are the essential ingredients of civilization, and speakers of language no more know where it came from than babies know where they come from.

The great arbiters of language are the women who speak it in the presence of children... What the women pass on to the next generation is "right" and what they do not bother to pass on to their children sooner or later becomes "wrong."

The trumpet does not more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudibility.

We oftener say things because we can say them well, than because they are sound and reasonable.