Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

Blessed be the God's voice; for it is true, and falsehoods have to cease before it!

Cherish what is dearest while you have it near you, and wait not till it is far away. Blind and deaf that we are; oh, think, if thou yet love anybody living, wait not till death sweep down the paltry little dust clouds and dissonances of the moment, and all be made at last so mournfully clear and beautiful, when it is too late.

All destruction, by violent revolution or however it be, is but new creation on a wider scale.

The deadliest sin were the consciousness of no sin

Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right; he will grow daily more and more right. It is at bottom the condition on which all men have to cultivate themselves.

The greatest of all heroes is One--whom we do not name here! Let sacred silence meditate that sacred matter; you will find it the ultimate perfection of a principle extant throughout man's whole history on earth.