Sublime Virtue

"They that know don't speak; and they that speak don't know. To shut the lips, and close the portals (of the eyes and ears), to blunt the sharp angles, to unravel disorder, to soften the glare, to share the dust, - this I call being the same as deep heaven (the abysses). Such a character as this is equally incapable of familiarity and of distance, of profit and of injury, of honour and of meanness. Therefore he is the most honourable in the world."