The Wise Man observes, that there is a time to speak and a time to keep silence. One meets with people in the world, who never seem to have made the last of these observations. And yet these great talkers do not at all speak from their having anything to say, as every sentence shows, but only from their inclination to be talking. Their conversation is merely an exercise of the tongue: no other human faculty has any share in it. […] Is it possible, that it should never come into people’s thoughts to suspect, whether or no it be to their own advantage to show so very much of themselves? Or that you would altogether hold your peace, and it should be your wisdom. (Sermons 91)
