RASH, ANGRY WORDS.
Rash, angry words, and spoken out of season,
When passion has usurped the throne of reason,
Have ruined many. Passion is unjust,
And for an idle transitory gust
Of gratified revenge dooms us to pay,
With long repentance at a later day.
Theognis, a Greek.
—Translated by Frere.
2072
An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions: he is neither hot nor timid.
—Chesterfield.
2073
Words are but wind, but writing may rise up in judgment.
2074
Stay longer—are two charming words in a friend's vocabulary.