It is as easy to draw back a stone thrown with force from the hand, as to recall a word once spoken. 2069 The unspoken word never does harm. 2070 For want of a word, lives often drift, and remain apart. 2071 RASH, ANGRY WORDS. Rash, angry words, and spoken out of season, When passion has usurped the throne of reason, Have ruined many. Passion is unjust, And for an idle transitory gust Of gratified revenge dooms us to pay, With long repentance at a later day. _Theognis, a Greek._ --_Translated by Frere._ 2072 An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions: he is neither hot nor timid. --_Chesterfield._ 2073 Words are but wind, but writing may rise up in judgment. 2074 Stay longer--are two charming words in a friend's vocabulary. 2075 Fair words gladden many a heart. --_Longfellow._ 2076 To a good listener few words will do. 2077 Hard words break no bones, but they sometimes break hearts. 2078 He that would be well spoken of, Must not speak ill of others. 2079 Kind words are the music of the world. --_F. W. Faber._ 2080 Kind words are a bright oasis in life's great desert. --_The Coming Age._ 2082 My words fly up, my thoughts remain below, Words, without thoughts, never to Heaven go. --_Shakespeare._ 2083 Words are but pictures of our thoughts. --_Dryden._ 2084 If word of mine Have harmed thee, rashly spoken, let the winds Bear all remembrance of it swift away. 2085 There are words which cut like steel. --_Balzac._ 2086 If you think twice before you speak once, you will speak twice the better for it. 2087 Thy words have darted hope into my soul, And comfort dawns upon me. --_Southern._ 2088 A word and a stone let go, cannot be recalled. 2089 Like a beautiful flower, full of colour, but without perfume, are the fine, but fruitless words, of him who does not act accordingly. --_Buddha._ 2090 It would perhaps be well for many of us to have in sight the following little sentiment when writing letters:-- Words spoken are light as air; Words written are always there. 2091 AN ILL-TEMPERED LETTER.