“Silence is more eloquent than words.”

“Silence is deep as Eternity, speech is shallow as Time.”

“Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.”

“Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better.”

“When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.”

“Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.”

“Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.”