Part 97

A delicate thought is a flower of the mind.--Rollin.

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.

Time makes more converts than reason.--Thomas Paine.

Time stoops to no man's lure.--Swinburne.

Time is the wisest councillor.--Pericles.

Time is a wave which never murmurs, because there is no obstacle to its flow.--Madame Swetchine.

Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.--Seneca.

The slow sweet hours that bring us all things good.--Tennyson.

Part with it as with money, sparing; pay no moment but in purchase of its worth; and what its worth! ask death-beds, they can tell.--Young.

The crutch of Time accomplishes more than the club of Hercules.--Balthaser Gracian.

Time is the shower of Danæ; each drop is golden.--Madame Swetchine.

~Title.~--How impious is the title of "sacred majesty" applied to a worm, who, in the midst of his splendor, is crumbling into dust!--Thomas Paine.

The three highest titles that can be given a man are those of martyr, hero, saint.--Gladstone.