Speaking without thinking is shooting without aim. Pr.
Spectatum veniunt, veniunt spectentur ut ipsæ—The 5 ladies come to see, they come also to be seen. Ovid.
Spectemur agendo—Let us be tried by our actions. M.
Spectres exist for those only who wish to see them. Holtei.
Speculation should have free course and look fearlessly towards all the thirty-two points of the compass, whithersoever and howsoever it listeth. Carlyle.
Speech, even the commonest, has something of song in it. Carlyle.
Speech has been given to man to disguise his 10 thought. Talleyrand.
Speech is a laggard and a sloth, but the eyes shoot forth an electric fluid that condenses all the elements of sentiment and passion in one single emanation. Horace Smith.
Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech. Rivarol.
Speech is like tapestry unfolded, where the imagery appears distinct; but thoughts, like tapestry in the bale, where the figures are rolled up together. Themistocles, quoted by Bacon.