Words let us say the things we want to say and also things we would be better off not having said. They let us know the things we need to know, and also things we wish we didn't.Steven Pinker
Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.Ralph Waldo Emerson
If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.Henry David Thoreau
If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.Henry David Thoreau
Nothing is more dangerous to one's own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate.C. S. Lewis
