The nobleness of silence. The highest melody dwells only in silence,--the sphere melody, the melody of health.

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

A poor creature who has said or done nothing worth a serious man taking the trouble of remembering.

Thou fool! Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom; that idle crag thou sittest on is six thousand years of age.

The deadliest sin were the consciousness of no sin

Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.

The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world,--words with little meaning, actions with little worth,--one loves to reflect on the great Empire of Silence.