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

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

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.

Pleasant words are the food of love.

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

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

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.

We talk little when vanity does not make us.

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

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

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

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

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.

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.

Speech is the mirror of action.

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

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

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.

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

It is the man determines what is said, not the words.