Formerly, his heart had been as a locked casket with its treasure inside; but now the casket was empty, and the lock was broken. Left groping in darkness, with his prop utterly gone, Silas had inevitably a sense, though a dull and half-despairing one, that if any help came to him it must come from without; and there was a slight stirring of expectation at the sight of his fellow-men, a faint consciousness of dependence on their goodwill.
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Wittgenstein on Clarity and Silence
What can be said at all can be said clearly, and what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence.
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MacDonald on Doubt
"Doubt," I said to myself, "may be a poor encouragement to do anything, but it is a bad reason for doing nothing."
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Augustine on Seeing and Being
As for ourselves, we see the things you have made because they are. But they are because you see them. We see outwardly that they are and inwardly that they are good. But you saw them made when you saw that it was right to make them.
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El-ahrairah on Pity for the Ingratitude of Ignorance
I have learned that with creatures one loves, suffering is not the only thing for which one may pity them. A rabbit who does not know when a gift has made him safe is poorer than a slug, even though he may think otherwise himself.