Silent Era

Famous quotes containing the words silent and/or era:

“A good book is the plectrum with which our else silent lyres are struck.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)