Earnest men never think in vain though their thoughts may be
errors.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
Though an inheritance of acres may be bequeathed, an inheritance of
knowledge and wisdom cannot. The wealthy man may pay others for doing
his work for him, but it is impossible to get his thinking done for him
by another, or to purchase any kind of self-culture.--_Samuel Smiles._
Thoughts shut up want air, and spoil like bales unopened to the
sun.--_Young._
Good thoughts are blessed guests, and should be heartily welcomed, well
fed, and much sought after. Like rose leaves, they give out a sweet
smell if laid up in the jar of memory.--_Spurgeon._
Thought is invisible nature--nature is invisible thought.--_Heinrich
Heine._
Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the
steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them, it
only creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in.--_George Eliot._
Wherever a great mind utters its thoughts,--there is
Golgotha.--_Heinrich Heine._
"Give me," said Herder to his son, as he lay in the parched weariness of
his last illness, "give me a great thought, that I may quicken myself
with it."--_Richter._
You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page, where a neat rivulet of
text shall meander through a meadow of margin.--_Sheridan._
Fully to understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, as
much time as to conceive it.--_Joubert._
Many men's thoughts are not acorns, but merely pebbles.--_Charles
Buxton._
A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the
depth of its source is the force of its projection.--_Emerson._
~Threats.~--Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in
the execution of them.--_Colton._
It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence whether a man be
behind it or no.--_Emerson._
~Time.~--Time's abyss, the common grave of all.--_Dryden._
Come what come may, time and the hour run through the roughest
day.--_Shakespeare._