“A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.”
Author details
Related authors
Other Frederick William Robertson Quotes
The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.
Frederick William Robertson 
58% of people like this quote
Men... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.
Frederick William Robertson
58% of people like this quote
However dark and profitless, however painful and weary, existence may have become, life is not done, and our Christian character is not won, so long as God has anything left for us to suffer, or anything left for us to do.
Frederick William Robertson
57% of people like this quote
No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves.
Frederick William Robertson
55% of people like this quote
Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.
Frederick William Robertson
54% of people like this quote