A man is literally what he thinks.

A man who takes more words than is necessary to tell more than he knows.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.

If now and then we encounter pages that explode, pages that wound and sear, that wring groans and tears and curses, know that they come from a man with his back up, a man whose only defenses left are his words and his words are always stronger than the lying, crushing weight of the world, stronger than all the racks and wheels which the cowardly invent to crush out the miracle of personality. If any man ever dared to translate all that is in his heart, to put down what is really his experience, what is truly his truth, I think then the world would go to smash, that it would be blown to smithereens and no god, no accident, no will could ever again assemble the pieces, the atoms, the indestructible elements that have gone to make up the world.

Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.

A man should be able to hear, and to bear, the worst that could be said of him.

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.

The sort of words a man says is the sort he hears in return.

His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought.

... the wise Man that holds his Tongue, says more than the Fool who speaks.

A man sees. A man hears. A man knows.

A lord must learn that sometimes words can accomplish what swords cannot.

"When a man says "I know what I mean, but I can't express it," he generally does not know what he means — for there can be no knowledge without words; there can only be feelings."

Beware clarity. A man speaking to you in clear language is clearly using obsolete ideas.