“The days come and go but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.”

“The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant party, but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.”

“Why covet a knowledge of new facts? Day and night, house and garden, a few books, a few actions, serve us as well as would all trades and all spectacles. We are far from having exhausted the significance of the few symbols we use. We can come to use them yet with a terrible simplicity.”

“We must go alone. I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.”

“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.”

“Do you think the porter and the cook have no anecdotes, no experiences, no wonders for you? The walls of their minds are scrawled all over with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions.”

“Let us be silent, that we may hear the whisper of God.”