As The Swiss Inscription Says: Sprechen Ist Silbern, Schweigen Ist Golden,--"Speech Is Silvern, Silence Is Golde

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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 (1795-1881)
-- Sartor Resartus, Book iii, Chap. iii

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