"DISCUSSION, n. A method of confirming others in their errors."

"Whereas some ascetics and Brahmins remain addicted to such unedifying conversation as about kings, robbers, ministers…"

"When a monk abides [in equanimity], if his mind inclines to talking, he resolves: ‘Such talk as is low, vulgar, coars…"

"A disciple should not seek the Teacher’s company for the sake of discourses, stanzas, and expositions. ... But such t…"

"But still his tongue ran on, the less Of weight it bore, with greater ease."

"With vollies of eternal babble."

"The Age that admires talk so much can have little discernment for inarticulate work, or for anything that is deep and…"

"Words learn'd by rote a parrot may rehearse, But talking is not always to converse, Not more distinct from harmony di…"

"But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much."

"It would talk; Lord, how it talked!"