Many people who have the gift of gab don’t know how to wrap it up.

Anybody can become angry—that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way—that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarters, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.