All the greatest work of this world goes on noiselessly. Only little workers clatter. God, both in nature and in grace, works silently. The angels go about noiselessly on their blessed ministries. So the best work any of us do is what we do without noise. Our words give forth sound, but it is not the sounds that do good, that brighten people’s sad faces, that change tears to laughter, that stimulate hope, that put courage into fainting hearts; it is not the noise of our words, but the thoughts which the words carry. The best part of any good man's life is his influence — that strange, impalpable something which goes out evermore from his character like fragrance from a flower, like light from a star; and influence works always in silence, without words.