What we call each other ultimately becomes what we think of each other, and it matters. The stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones. Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never harm me. And Another Set Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates.
Silence is golden.
The toes of human voices are mightier than strings or brass to move the soul. The voice is nothing but beaten air. One orator in a family, nay, even in a city, is enough. It usually takes more than 3 weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.