Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

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

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

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.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

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

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