John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) American politician, 6th president of the United States (in office from 1825 to 1829)
Epitaph for John Adams (1829), inscribed on one of the portals of the United First Parish Church Unitarian (Church of the Presidents), Quincy
Norman Mailer book The Presidential Papers
The Sixth Presidential Paper — A Kennedy Miscellany : An Impolite Interview
The Presidential Papers (1963)
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Devil in Winter
“The silence in the room had width, height, depth, mass and substance.”
Maud Hart Lovelace book Betsy in Spite of Herself
Source: Betsy in Spite of Herself
“Silence is the wit of fools, and one of the virtues of the wise.”
Anatole France (1844–1924) French writer
Le silence est l'esprit des sots<br>Et l'une des vertus du sage. <br class="br">Bernard de Bonnard, "Le Silence," http://books.google.com/books?id=9gAvAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR14&dq=%22Et+l%27une+des+vertus+du+sage%22+Bonnard&ei=iyzvR-bFOIa4zASV0PyoBQ#PPA244,M1 L'Almanach des Muses (1776) <br class="br">Misattributed
“The writer is a spiritual anarchist, as in the depth of his soul every man is.”
William Saroyan (1908–1981) American writer
The William Saroyan Reader (1958)
Context: The writer is a spiritual anarchist, as in the depth of his soul every man is. He is discontented with everything and everybody. The writer is everybody's best friend and only true enemy — the good and great enemy. He neither walks with the multitude nor cheers with them. The writer who is a writer is a rebel who never stops.
“The wise man refuses to be led beyond his own depth.”
Jami (1414–1492) Persian poet
An argosy of fables, p. 242
about himself, Extracted from Baharīstān-e- Jami
Henri de Lubac (1896–1991) Jesuit theologian and cardinal
Job 11:7
Source: Catholicism (1938), Ch. XI. "Person and Society", p. 186
“Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow.”
Orhan Pamuk (1952) Turkish novelist, screenwriter, and Nobel Prize in Literature recipient
Source: My Name is Red
