Later, in active life, the temple rises without noise of hammer or axe.

Homes are quarries where children are trained, where moral truth is lodged in the heart, where the elements of character are hewn out like fair stones, to appear in the life in after days, when it grows up among men.
Then there are the thought-quarries back of what people see in every human life.

Men must be silent thinkers before their words or deeds can have either great beauty or power.

Extemporaneousness anywhere is of small value.

Glib, easy talkers, who are always ready to speak on any subject, who require no time for preparation, may go on chattering, forever, but their talk is only chatter.