Actions Talk Louder than Words.

He one day after dinner began talking to me about going to Naples; and I, having had a difference with my father about my learning the flute, said to him: ‘You appear to be a man of words, and not of deeds.’ He answered: ‘I have had a dispute with my mother, and if I had money sufficient to carry me to Naples, I would never more trouble my head about my little hole of a shop.’ To this I replied that, if there were no other obstruction to our journey, I had money enough in my pocket to cover our expenses.