“Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.”
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Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time.
Secrecy is the element of all goodness even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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.
To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
