Those that govern most make least noise.

-Selden,John
TableTalk (published1689).

So all day long the noise of battle rolled Among the mountains by the winter sea.

-Tennyson
  Idylls of the King,'The Passing of Arthur', l.170^1.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness.God is the friend of silence. See how natureötrees, flowers, grassögrows in silence; see the stars, themoon and thesun, how they move insilence† We need silence to be able to touch souls.

-Bojaxhiu
  A Gift for God,'Willing Slaves to theWill of God'.

   Ambition, madam, is a great man's madness, That is not kept in chains, and close-pent rooms, But in fair lightsome lodgings, and isgirt With the wild noise of prattling visitants, Which makes it lunatic beyond all cure.

-Webster,John
  The Duchess of Malfi, act1, sc.1.