My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
The unspoken word never does harm.
I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.
He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.