Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.—Proverbs 16:24.
Men who have much to say use the fewest words.—H.W. Shaw.
What you keep by you you may change and mend; but words once spoken can never be recalled.—Roscommon.
If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.—Carlyle.
It would be well for us all, old and young, to remember that our words and actions, ay, and our thoughts also, are set upon never-stopping wheels, rolling on and on unto the pathway of eternity.—M.M. Brewster.
"Words, words, words!" says Hamlet, disparagingly. But God preserve us from the destructive power of words! There are words which can separate hearts sooner than sharp swords. There are words whose sting can remain through a whole life!—Mary Howitt.
A word spoken in due season, how good is it!—Proverbs 15:22, 23.
Work.—Get work. Be sure it is better than what you work to get.—Mrs. Browning.
No man is happier than he who loves and fulfills that particular work for the world which falls to his share. Even though the full understanding of his work, and of its ultimate value, may not be present with him; if he but love it—always assuming that his conscience approves—it brings an abounding satisfaction.—Leo W. Grindon.
Nothing is impossible to industry.—Periander.