The best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.

Blind mouths! That scarce themselves know how to holdA sheep-hook.

Sanctification in any area of our lives always expresses this double dimension—a putting off and a putting on, as it were. Speech and silence, appropriately expressed, are together the mark of the mature.3

There is a world of difference between the silence of apathy and the silence of passion!

Christians are not particularly gifted at knowing how we sound to others, especially in parts of the world where our voices are the loudest and most numerous.

To persevere in one's duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass. Notebook When

Never argue with stupid people, because they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

Children and fools _always_ speak the truth. The deduction is plain --adults and wise persons _never_ speak it.

And if I have now been compelled to make a clear statement of his career it is due to those injudicious champions who have endeavoured to clear his memory by attacks upon him whom I shall ever regard as the best and the wisest man whom I have ever known.