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• Talking and eloquence are not the same thing: to speak, and to speak well, are two things.
  A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks....
• When you speak to a man, look on his eyes; when he speaks to thee, look on his mouth.
  -- Ben Frankli...
• No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own.
  He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a teacher. -- Ben Johnso...
• The Irish are a fair people; they never speak well of one another.
  -- Samuel Johnson, in James Boswell, 'The Life of Samuel Johnson'...
• Does a man speak foolishly?-suffer him gladly, for you are wise.
  Does he speak erroneously?-stop such a man's mouth with sound words that cannot be gainsaid....
• Speak little and well, if you would be esteemed as a man of merit. -- Trench
• Hear no ill of a friend, nor speak any of an enemy. -- Ben Frankli
• How dieth the wise man? As the fool.
• Silence speaks with eloquence. -- R. Reiley