Yes, Alec, it is I, your father, speaking.

-Bell, Alexander Melville
  The first words spoken and heard on the world's first long- distance telephone call, from  Alexander Melville Bell in Brantford, Ontario, Canada, to his son  Alexander Graham Bell in nearby Paris,13 km away,10  Aug.

Just as the pious man prays without speaking a word and the Almighty hearkens unto him, so the artist with true feelings paints and the sensitive man understands and recognizes it.

-Friedrich, Caspar David
Quoted in S Hinz Caspar David Friedrich in Briefen und Bekenntnissen (1968).

L'e¤  ducation de l'homme commence a'   sa naissance; avant de parler, avant que d'entendre, il s'instruit de¤  ja'  . A man's education begins when he is born; before speaking, before understanding, he is already teaching himself.

-Rousseau,JeanJacques
  EŁ  mile ou de l'e¤  ducation, pt.1.

It's ill speaking between a fou man and a fasting.

-Scott, Sir Walter
  Redgauntlet, letter11,'WanderingWillie'sTale'.