Give thy thoughts no tongue.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

Egoism will be destroyed if you constantly tell yourself 'It is He, not I', 'He is the force I am but the instrument'. Keep His name always on the tongue and contemplate His glory whenever you see or hear anything beautiful or grand.

My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.

My love's more richer than my tongue.

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.

And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees books, in the running brooks sermons, in stones and good in everything.

'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul, that swore.

If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone morals and art will deteriorate, if justice goes astray the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything.

The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.