Early Church Writings — historically valuable Christian documents, presented as noncanonical writings rather than Scripture.
Additional and Disputed Ignatian Letters
Chapter XV
It is better that a man should be silent while he is something, than that he should be talking when he is not; that by those things which he speaks he should act, and by those things of which he is silent he should be known.
Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume I, edited by Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson; revised by A. Cleveland Coxe. Public domain. Electronic text courtesy of CCEL.