"Hiljaisuus kuuluu paremmin kuin huuto. (Ylihärmä, Southern Bothnia) (RRO)"

"Timely silence, then, is precious, for it is nothing less than the mother of the wisest thoughts."

"Silence best speaks the mind."

"Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech i…"

"I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. Wha…"

"Virtutem primam esse puto, compescere linguam: proximus ille deo est qui scit ratione tacere."

"Speech is of time, silence is of eternity."

"All Heaven and Earth are still, though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most."

"Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed…"

"Silence is more eloquent than words."