Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dealer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We must guard against disrespectful, disparaging, and criticizing thoughts. We must try to practice reverence and devotion in our thinking at all times.
One of the things that writing and speech can do is express what we're thinking one thought at a time.
Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.
One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
I think that what I do, in terms of how I craft my words rhetorically, is fairly simple stuff. I don't mean that to denigrate myself. I mean that in the sense of, when I write, the person that I keep in mind is my mother-in-law.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.
A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.
Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.
Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.