If a man would allot half an hour every night for self-conversation, and recapitulate with himself whatever he has done, right or ...wrong, in the course of the day, he would be both the better and the wiser for it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation!... A human being, Hastings, cannot resist the ...opportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Woman has been systematically educated to spend her conversational ability upon the most frivolous topics. This has the effect to ...belittle her range of thought so that she can comprehend only superficialities.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the ...invention of speech.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »