There was silence deep as death, / And the boldest held his breath / For a time.

There was silence deep as death; And the boldest held his breath, For a time.

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

Silence is as deep as eternity; speech, shallow as time.

Speech is great; but silence is greater.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of Life, which they are thenceforth to rule.