Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

Dancing: The vertical expression of a horizontal desire legalized by music.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

I am sure that if people had to choose between living where the noise of children never stopped and where it was never heard, all the good-natured and sound people would prefer the incessant noise to the incessant silence.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

Most people do not pray; they only beg.