Speech is morning to the mind; it spreads the beauteous images abroad, which else lie furled or clouded in the soul. Nathaniel Lee.
Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to 15 convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense. Emerson.
Speech is the gift of all, but thought of few. Cato.
Speech is too often, not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling or suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal. Carlyle.
Speech of a man's self ought to be seldom and well chosen. Bacon.
Speech that leads not to action, still more that hinders it, is a nuisance on the earth. Carlyle.
Speedy execution is the mother of good fortune. 20 Pr.
Spem gregis—The hope of the flock. Virg.
Spem pretio non emo—I do not give money for mere hopes. Ter.
Spend not on hopes. George Herbert.