The unspoken word never does harm.

I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.

He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.

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.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.