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.

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

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

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

My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.

My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.

We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.

We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.

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.