As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden,—"Speech is silvern, Silence is golden;" or, as I might rather express it, Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity.
Thomas Carlyle
Time
A quote by Thomas Carlyle
From the source
Sartor Resartus. Book iii. Chap. iii.
Recorded in John Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, ninth edition, 1905 printing.