Silence is the virtue of a fool.

Primum quaerite bona animi; caetera aut aderunt, aut non oberunt

Those who have taken upon them to lay down the law of nature as a thing already searched out and understood, whether they have spoken in simple assurance or pr…

For man seeketh in society comfort, use, and protection: and they be three wisdoms of divers natures, which do often sever: wisdom of the behaviour, wisdom of …

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

He who knows does not speak; he who speaks does not know.