The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

It is a luxury to be understood.

Speak and speed; the close mouth catches no flies.

Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once.

Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so is he.

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.