Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“The Wise are silent, the Foolish speak, and children are thus led astray.”
“It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.”
Moralia, Of the Training of Children
“The soul is silent.
If it speaks at all
it speaks in dreams.”
Source: "Child Crying Out", Ararat (1990)
“Painting is silent poetry, and poetry painting that speaks.”
Quoted by Plutarch, De gloria Atheniensium 3.346f http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0234%3Astephpage%3D346f.
Variant translations:
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.
Painting is silent poetry, poetry is eloquent painting.
See also: Ut pictura poesis
“I am never silent. I speak eternally.”
"I Speak Eternally" http://www.avatarmeherbaba.org/erics/ispeak.html in Love Alone Prevails (1981) by Kitty Davy, p. 166, 179.
General sources
Context: External silence helps to achieve inner Silence, and only in internal Silence is Baba found — in profound inner Silence. I am never silent. I speak eternally. The voice that is heard deep within the soul is My voice — the voice of inspiration, of intuition, of guidance. Through those who are receptive to this voice, I speak.
“Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen.”
Frequently attributed to Muir without source. An extensive search of Muir's published and unpublished writings found several sharp and cogent observations concerning society (see above) but not this one.
Misattributed
