I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.

Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

Little-minded people's thoughts move in such small circles that five minutes conversation gives you an arc long enough to determine their whole curve.

Which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.

Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.

Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.