“Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.”
“Dancing is silent poetry.”
“Not even the gods fight against necessity.”
“The Athenians, front-fighters of the Greeks, at Marathon destroyed the power of the gold-bearing Medes.”
“Tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie.”
“Some of the most powerful speeches I have given have been delivered in the dedicated silence of my actions.”