Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

The whisper of a pretty girl can be heard further than the roar of a lion.

Consider the whale: It never gets into trouble until it comes up and starts spouting.

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.