What could be more full of meaning? — for the pulpit is ever this earth's foremost part; all the rest come in its rear; the pulpit leads the world. - Herman Melville

There are some strange summer mornings in the country, when he who is but a sojourner from the city shall early walk forth into the fields, and be wonder-smitten with the trance-like aspect of the green and golden world. Not a flower stirs; the trees forget to wave; the grass itself seems to have ceased to grow; and all Nature, as if suddenly become conscious of her own profound mystery, and feeling no refuge from it but silence, sinks into this wonderful and indescribable repose.

All Profound things, and emotions of things are preceded and attended by Silence.

Pierre little foresaw that this world hath a secret deeper than beauty, and Life some burdens heavier than death.