Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong

Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong

But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do:
for they think that they shall be read more

But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do:
for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

The heart seldom feels what the mouth expresses.
[Fr., Le coeur sent rarement ce que la bouche exprime.]

The heart seldom feels what the mouth expresses.
[Fr., Le coeur sent rarement ce que la bouche exprime.]

That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious.
[Fr., Tout ce qu'on dit de trop est fade read more

That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious.
[Fr., Tout ce qu'on dit de trop est fade et rebutant.]

Speak boldly, and speak truly, shame the devil.

Speak boldly, and speak truly, shame the devil.

I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your
flesh: for as ye have yielded read more

I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your
flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to
uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your
members servants to righteousness unto holiness.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

For brevity is very good,
Where we are, or are not understood.

For brevity is very good,
Where we are, or are not understood.