Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

In quiet places, reason abounds.

Genuine wisdom is usually conspicuous through modesty and silence.

Silence is pure and holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking.

Cautious silence is the refuge of good sense

Evolution under uniform conditions pleased every one — except curates and bishops; it was the very best substitute for religion; a safe, conservative, practical, thoroughly Common-Law deity.

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

Silence is not only golden, it is seldom misquoted.

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better.

Rest and quiet are the comforts of those who have been content to remain in obscurity.

Silence is a source of Great Strength.

There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.