A "No" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a "Yes" merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.

A time to keep silence, and a time to speak.

Candor is the brightest gem of criticism.

Frank and explicit that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.

How long shall this man be a snare unto us? let the men go.

I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

Knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed?

Let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me that will.

Open rebuke is better than secret love.