A wasted word is a wasted energy

... There was another interesting custom. The children were trained at home to speak only when needed. The parents used to say that a wasted word is a wasted energy, and nothing distorts the mind more easily than words used without purpose or for babbling and yakking. When an individual was much too talkative, people would consider him or her empty of real values or full of dishonest motives.

-Torkom Saraydarian
(Woman, Torch of the Future)