“Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself—like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.”

“Who was it who said that a wise man speaks when he has something to say, but a fool speaks because he must?”

“Backbite, v. t. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you.”

“Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think.”

“For the only way one can speak of nothing is to speak of it as though it were something, just as the only way one can speak of God is to speak of him as though he were a man, which to be sure he was, in a sense, for a time, and as the only way one can speak of man, even our anthropologists have realized that, is to speak of him as though he were a termite.”

“Speech is a mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so is he.”

“A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself.”

“Wise men speak when they have something to say, fools speak because they have to say something”

“No religion has one single language. Muslims are spread all over the world and all Muslims do not speak one language. For instance the Turk Muslims speak Turkish, the Iranian Muslims speak Persian, the Indonesian Muslims speak Bhasha Indonesia; the Punjabi Muslims speak Punjabi, the Maharashtrian Muslim speaks Marathi, and like wise. He was against imposing any language on any people and he spoke a language which is known as Hindustani.”

“The man of the Midi does not lie, he deceives himself. He does not always speak the truth but he believes he speaks it.”