men’s actions are the best guides to their thoughts

He is really wise whose actions reflect his words.

He often said that words told them what someone was thinking, but the tone told them how they felt.

People will say all kinds of things about their motives and intentions; they are used to dressing things up with words. Their actions, however, say much more about their character, about what is going on underneath the surface.

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

It is astonishing what power words have over men.

The sort of words a man says is the sort he hears in return.

He taught me that the measure of a man lies not in what he says but what he does.

With words one man can make another blessed, or drive him to despair;

We must judge of a man's motives from his overt acts.

It is having in some measure a sort of wit to know how to use the wit of others.

I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards — When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.

[A proverb is] one man's wit, and all men's wisdom.

You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words, that matter.