He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

It is never more difficult to speak well than when we are ashamed of keeping silent.

We talk little when vanity does not make us.

"I'm with an old family" was the euphemism used to dignify the professions of white folks' cooks and maids who talked so affectedly among their own kind in Roxbury [Massachusetts] that you couldn't even understand them.

Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have.

The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure of speech is too great for his income of ideas.

Pleasant words are the food of love.

There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.

It is easy to utter what has been kept silent, but impossible to recall what has been uttered.

Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.