“Thoughts left unsaid are never wasted.”

“And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid…”

“There are times when good words are to be left unsaid out of esteem for silence.”

“The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.”

“In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid.”

“And the air was full of Thoughts and Things to Say. But at times like these, only the Small Things are ever said. Big Things lurk unsaid inside.”

“I don't have to tell you it goes without saying there are some things better left unsaid. I think that speaks for itself. The less said about it the better.”

“So I find words I never thought to speak

In streets I never thought I should revisit

When I left my body on a distant shore.”

“Bad herdsmen waste the flocks which thou hast left behind.”

“Handel and Shakespeare have left us the best that any have left us; yet, in spite of this, how much of their lives was wasted.”