“A beautiful face is a silent commendation.”

“When you are silent you are again beautiful.”

“Can’t I another’s face commend,
And to her virtues be a friend,
But instantly your forehead lowers,
As if her merit lessen’d yours?”

“To remain silent in the face of evil is itself a form of evil.”

“The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.”

“That the world was silent and cold and bare and that in this lay its terrible beauty”

“It is the call of the beauty — robed ones
To worship the great Beauty.
It is the call of God
Through silent intelligences
And starburst of feelings.”

“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.”

“Their desire was silent yet magnificent, like a thousand daisies attuning their faces toward the path of the sun.”

“[…] faded smiles oft linger in the face,
While grief's first flakes fall silent on the head!”