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

“Silence is more eloquent than words.”

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

“In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time: the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.”

“For a hundred that can bear adversity, there is hardly one that can bear prosperity.”

“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.”