Eating words has never given me indigestion.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

A blemish may be removed from a diamond by careful polishing, but evil words once spoken cannot be effaced.

The greatest tie of all is language.... Words are the only things that last for ever. The most tremendous monuments or prodigies of engineering crumble under the hand of Time. The Pyramids moulder, the bridges rust, the canals fill up, grass covers the railway track; but words spoken two or three thousand years ago remain with us now, not as mere relics of the past, but with all their pristine vital force.

We are masters of the unsaid words but slaves of those we let slip out.