One hour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict - girding up its armor to meet read more

One hour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict - girding up its armor to meet the most insidious foe.

Our best thoughts come from others.

Our best thoughts come from others.

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated read more

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.

Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.

All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.

All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.

The average person thinks he isn't.

The average person thinks he isn't.

In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish thought.

In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish thought.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted read more

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.

There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.