I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.
As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
Our Democracy destroys itself because it has abused the right to freedom and equality, because has learned the citizens to consider the insolence as right, illegality as freedom, the impudence of speech as equality and anarchy as bliss.
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends
Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world.
We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.”
No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.