Best Grief is Tongueless – before He’ll tell – Burn Him in the Public Square –
Be checked for silence, but never taxed for speech.
As we must account for every idle word, so we must for every idle silence.
And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.
An absolute silence leads to sadness. It offers an image of death.[Un silence absolu porte à la tristesse. Il offre une image de la mort.]
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.
