“Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.”

“Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.”

“There is nothing harder, at moments, than talking to someone who has all the power of silence.”

“Speech is silvern, Silence is golden; or, as I might rather express it: speech is of time, silence is of eternity.”

“Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.”

“Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.”

“Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied sould of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech. In the same way to say a little is often to tell more than to say.”

“The day will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you strangle today.”

“Out of purity and silence come words of power.”

“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.”