Always speak the truth. Make few promises. Live up to your engagements. Keep your own secrets, if you have any.
Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.—
Socrates said that there are two sciences which every man ought to learn— first, the science of speech; and second, the more difficult one of silence.
The greatest events of an age are its best thoughts. It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
Thought means life, since those who do not think do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.—
I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.—
Keynote to good breeding—B natural.
"Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts."
Dr. Joseph Parker finely and forcibly says: "Falsehood is in a hurry; it may be at any moment detected and punished; truth is calm, serene; its judgment is on high: its King cometh out of the chambers of eternity."
