“When he has nothing to say, he lets words speak.”

“When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else.”

“Who was it who said that a wise man speaks when he has something to say, but a fool speaks because he must?”

“He may well speak French and Latin and half a dozen languages, but since he has nothing to say – what good are they?”

“A Frenchman must be always talking, whether he knows anything of the matter or not; an Englishman is content to say nothing, when he has nothing to say.”

“But if you say: "How am I to know what he means, when I see nothing but the signs he gives?" then I say: "How is he to know what he means, when he has nothing but the signs either?"”

“One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say.”

“Words deserted him immediately. He could only speak when he was not asked to.”

“Man, when reduced to nothing, or in other words a survivor, is not tragic but comic, because he has no fate.”

“One cannot create an art that speaks to me when one has nothing to say.”