Silent Era

Famous quotes containing the words silent and/or era:

    “I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. How far off, how cool, how chaste the persons look, begirt each one with a precinct or sanctuary!”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)