“Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and if you speak, speak accordingly.”

“It may justly be urged that, properly speaking, what alone has meaning is a sentence.”

“Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think is creation's.”

“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.”

“My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me.
'Speak to me. Why do you never speak? Speak.
'What are you thinking of? What thinking? What?
'I never know what you are thinking. Think.”

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

“Speaking our language, you will understand us—and if you can think as another man thinks, you cannot dislike him.”

“It make one's mouth hurt to speak with such forced merriment.”

“A wise man first thinks and then speaks and a fool speaks first and then thinks.”

“When one woman doesn't speak, other women get hurt.”