As we must account for every idle word, so we must for every idle silence.—Franklin.
Learn to hold thy tongue. Five words cost Zacharias forty weeks' silence.—Fuller.
Silence is a virtue in those who are deficient in understanding.—Bouhours.
Silence, when nothing need be said, is the eloquence of discretion.—Bovee.
Silence does not always mark wisdom.—S.T. Coleridge.
Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise.—Proverbs 17:28.
Sin.—Suffer anything from man, rather than sin against God.—Sir Henry Vane.
Let him that sows the serpent's teeth not hope to reap a joyous harvest. Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, its own avenging angel,—dark misgivings at the inmost heart.—Schiller.
I could not live in peace if I put the shadow of a willful sin between myself and God.—George Eliot.
Never let any man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul! Any other issue is doubtful; the evil effect on himself is certain.—Southey.