Good as is discourse, silence is better, and shames it.
言谈固然美好,沉默却更胜一筹,令言谈自惭。
— Ralph Waldo Emerson · Circles · Essays: First Series (1841) —
Good as is discourse, silence is better, and shames it.
言谈固然美好,沉默却更胜一筹,令言谈自惭。