“It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.
“The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape
“Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever
“All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again
“All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind
“Sweet souls around us watch us still, press nearer to our side; into our thoughts, into our prayers, with gentle helpings glide.
“Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man