_Talleyrand's Maxim_ (Vol. vi., p. 575.; Vol. vii., p. 487.).--Young's
lines, to which Z. E. R. refers, are:
"Where Nature's end of language is declined,
And men talk only to conceal their mind."
With less piquancy, but not without the germ of the same idea, Dean Moss
(ob. 1729), in his sermon _Of the Nature and Properties of Christian
Humility_, says:
"Gesture is an artificial thing: men may stoop and cringe, and bow
popularly low, and yet have ambitious designs in their heads. And
_speech is not always the just interpreter of the mind_: men may use a
condescending style, and yet swell inwardly with big thoughts of
themselves."--_Sermons_, &c., 1737, vol. vii. p. 402.