Silence is the understanding of fools and one of the virtues of the
wise.--_Bonnard._
Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over
a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all
the while be sitting on one addled nest-egg; and when it takes to
cackling, will have nothing to announce but that addled
delusion.--_George Eliot._