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

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg crackles as if she had laid an asteroid.

Born, n. a person who talks when you wish him to listen.

Aloha is free.

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.

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.

People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint.

We know how to speak many falsehoods which resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

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.

Understanding a question is half an answer.

The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.

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

The day will soon come when I will show the world that the transmission of power and speech without the aid of any wires is possible.