No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought read more

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Great thoughts, like great deeds, need
No trumpet.

Great thoughts, like great deeds, need
No trumpet.

Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.

Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.

Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative.

Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative.

My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.

My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.

What we think, we become.

What we think, we become.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and an invisible labour.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and an invisible labour.

The first thought is often the best.
- Bishop Joseph Butler,

The first thought is often the best.
- Bishop Joseph Butler,

Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.