Who said “Silence is the virtue of a fool.”?

“Still waters run deep.”

“Silence is the mother of truth.”

“Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.”

“From politics it was an easy step to silence.”

“These be three silent things: The Falling snow... the hour before the dawn... the mouth of one just dead.”

“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”

“Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.”

“They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.”

“Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.”

“Some books are to be tasted; others to be swallowed; and some few to be chewed and digested.”

“We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.”