Thoughts

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.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.

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

Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one

Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever fresh and radiant possibility.

Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever-fresh and radiant possibility

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

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts

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

One thought fills immensity