It is a sin to be silent when it is your duty to protest...

Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words

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

There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.

You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

Great is he, who conquers the frightful. Sublime is he, who, while succumbing to it, fears it not.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows he knows his course is wrong and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

Sleep that masters all.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will.

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.

With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide.

People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I've learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one's reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one's master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person's view requires to be faked.

If it is any use to know it, I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it under water for every part that shows.

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

It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry, one hundred.

Great wisdom is generous, petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech in cantankerous.

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

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

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.

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

Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burned women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green.