The writer’s joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.
The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets successfully through many a bad night.
The richer in relationships thoughts become, the more confused and meaningless becomes their representation in such forms as numbers.
The pen is the tongue of the mind; the thoughts that are formed in the one, and those that are traced by the other, will bear a near resemblance.
The objective of all human arrangements is through distracting one’s thoughts to cease to be aware of life.
The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself – and such thinking, remember, is original thinking and may have valuable results.
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
Remember that the moment you reduce the statement of your desire, and a plan for its realization, to writing, you have actually TAKEN THE FIRST of a series of steps, which will enable you to convert the thought into its physical counterpart.
Our great thoughts, our great affections, the Truths of our life, never leave us. Surely, they cannot separate from our consciousness; shall follow it whithersoever that shall go; and are of their nature divine and immortal.
Only thoughts won by walking are valuable.
One thought fills immensity.
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.