Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do.
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.
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving in words evidence of the fact.
Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace...On much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.