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

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

“Music is well said to be the speech of angels.”

“All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.”

“Silence is more eloquent than words.”

“Man’s unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.”

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