A man is known by the silence he keeps.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.
To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.
Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.
A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.
Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.
Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.
He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.