quietness quotes

Inreturning and rest shall ye be saved; inquietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Isaiah 30:15.

Thou still unravished bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and slow time.

-John Keats
  Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St.  Agnes and Other Poems,'Ode on a Grecian Urn', stanza1.

No life, my honest scholar, no life so happyand so pleasant as the life of a well-governed angler; for when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip-banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us.

- Izaak Walton
  The Compleat Angler, pt.1, ch.5.