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

In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by Silence and by Speech acting together, comes a double significance.

Professors of the Dismal Science, I perceive the length of your tether is now pretty well run; and I must request you to talk a little lower in the future.

And man's little Life has Duties that are great, that are alone great, and go up to Heaven and down to Hell.

Be not a slave of words.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance.

Man is, and was always, a block-head and dullard; much readier to feel and digest, than to think and consider.