“If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.”

“You should not speak ill of an absent friend.”
Ne male loquare absenti amico.

“Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.”

“To speak well of a base man is much the same as speaking ill of a good man.”

“When people talk of the Freedom of Writing, Speaking, or thinking, I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.”

“And you're too nice," he added, above the lap-lap of the water and the patter of sand on the water-lily leaves. "I was relying on you being too jealous to let that demon near the place.”

“And though you study medicine for a score of lifetimes, there will come to you people whose illnesses are mysteries, for the anguish of which you speak is part and parcel of the profession of healing and must be lived with.”

“¿Do you think before speaking or do you speak after thinking?”

“Speak no ill of a friend, nor even of an enemy.”

“Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.”
Absenti nemo non nocuisse velit.