a man is more of a man because of what he does not say than what he does say.

Sometimes what goes without saying is best said anyway.

There are times when good words are to be left unsaid out of esteem for silence.

When he has nothing to say, he lets words speak.

There's stuff you can learn from people who don't tell you anything.

When a man is commonplace in discussion yet valued for what he writes that shows that his talents lie in his borrowed sources not in himself.

In closing a deal, what you don’t say may be more helpful than what you do say.

What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.

When Silent Cal Coolidge noted that “You don’t have to explain something you haven’t said,

Yet we must say something when those who say the most are saying nothing.

Blessed are they who have nothing to say, and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

Fortunately, when he lacks reason he also lacks words.

We are blessed and sustained by what is not said

One man will say a thing of himself without comprehending its excellence, in which another will discern a marvelous series of conclusions, which makes us affirm that it is no longer the same expression, and that he is no more indebted for it to the one from whom he has learned it, than a beautiful tree belongs to the one who cast the seed, without thinking of it, or knowing it, into the fruitful soil which caused its growth by its own fertility.