Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.[La pensée est le labeur de l’intelligence, la rêverie en est la volupté.]
Thought is free.
Thought is a key to all treasures.[La pensée est la clef de tous les trésors.]
Thought can never be compared with action, but when it awakens in us the image of truth.[La pensée ne peut être mise à l’égal de l’action que quand elle réveille en nous l’image de la vérité.]
Thought alone holds the tradition of the bygone life. The endless legacy of the past to the present is the secret source of human genius.[La pensée seule a la tradition de l’antérieur. Ce legs perpétuel du passé au présent et du présent à l’avenir, est le secret des génies humains.]
Those who pray always are necessary to those who never pray. In our view, the whole question is in the amount of thought that is mingled with prayer.[Il faut bien ceux qui prient toujours pour ceux qui ne prient jamais. Pour nous, toute la question est dans la quantité de pensée qui se mêle à la prière.]
Think about how our thoughts will impact the listener BEFORE they come out of our mouth.
There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them, or above each other – by language, which is the parent, and not the child, of thought.
There are no evil thoughts except one; the refusal to think.
There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write.
Theirs, too, is the word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.
The writer’s joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.
