In the faculty of speech man excels the brute; but if thou utterest what is improper, the brute is they superior.

His voice was oddly and beautifully rough cut, as some small boys'voices are. Each of his phrasings was rather like a little ancient island, inundated by a miniature sea of whiskey.

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low-an excellent thing in woman.

Talkers are no good doers.

Speech is the mirror of action.

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more easily than their words.

Just as our bread, mixed and baked, packaged and sold without benefit of accident or human frailty, is uniformly good and uniformly tasteless, so will our speech become one speech.

There can be no fairer ambition than to excel in talk; to be affable, gay, ready, clear, and welcome.

Nature, which gave us two eyes to see, and two ears to hear, has given us but one tongue to speak.