"Sir Walter Scott," London and Westminster Review No. 12 and 55, Art. 2 (1838-01) - Carlyle, Thomas | WIST Quotations
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time. A review of Scott's Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Baronet, Vols. 1-6 (1837). Reprinted in Carlyle, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827-1855).
