Quotes about Reflection

Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst. What is the right use? What is the one end, which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire.

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new.

The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.

A day is a more magnificent cloth than any muslin, the mechanism that makes it is infinitely cunninger, and you shall not conceal the sleezy, fraudulent, rotten hours you have slipped into the piece, nor fear that any honest thread, or straighter ste.

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within.

All the thoughts of a turtle are turtles, and of a rabbit, rabbits.

I, too late,Under her solemn fillet saw the scorn.

I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.

Solitary converse with nature; for thence are ejaculated sweet and dreadful words never uttered in libraries. Ah! the spring days, the summer dawns, and October woods!

It is only when the mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen.

With most men, scarce a link of memory holds yesterday and to-day together.