Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken. – Orson Rega Card

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact—from calling on us to look through a heap of millet-seed in order to be sure that there is no pearl in it. – George Eliot, Impressions of Theophrastus Such, 1879

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. – George Bernard Shaw

The difference between a smart man and a wise man is that a smart man knows what to say, a wise man knows whether or not to say it. – Frank M. Garafola