The true genius shudders at incompleteness — and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be. – Edgar Allan Poe

Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled. – Horace

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. – Martin Farquhar Tupper, “Of Discretion,” Proverbial Philosophy

The words you choose to say something are just as important as the decision to speak. – Author Unknown