" By moderation in speech, you will also attain the continuous recollection and that wise give and take which are so important a provision for you. To speak for the sake of what must be said, to express a timely feeling or a useful idea and then to be silent, is the secret of keeping possession on yourself while giving something to others, instead of letting your own torch go out as it lights other torches...Besides that is the way to give weight to one’s words. Speech is weighty when one perceives silence beneath it, when it conceals and yet suggests a treasure behind the words, a treasure that it gives out little by little, as is fitting, without haste and frivolous excitement. "

― Antonin Sertillanges