Since useless talk leads to dissipation, we admonish the novice never to speak merely for her own sake or for her own gratification; or, as Edward Leen says so forcefully, “never [to] speak to satisfy an impulse, but solely for the glory of God, for the right accomplishment of duty, for the promotion of truth, for the exercise of charity, for the comfort of the sorrowful and for the purpose of brightening the lives of one’s fellows.”
