I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I didn’t know.

Speak not, but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.

A fool contributes nothing worth hearing and takes offense to everything.

Meaningful silence is better than meaningless words.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

One of the most pathetic—and dangerous—signs of our times is the growing number of individuals and groups who believe that no one can possibly disagree with them for any honest reason.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.

The purpose of Propaganda is to make one set of people forget that other sets of people are human.