If one but tell a thing well, it moves on with undying voice, and over the fruitful earth and across the sea goes the bright gleam of noble deeds ever unquenchable.

Man's tongue is soft, and bone doth lack; yet a stroke therewith may break a man's back.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.