Who said “Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you…”?

“The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.”

“I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.”

“There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.”

“We do not talk -- we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.”

“No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.”

“Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know.”

“Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.”

“A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.”

“Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.”

“Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.”

“There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.”