Quotes about Reflection

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

The scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state he is Man Thinking.

Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two.

The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it.

The mind will quote whether the tongue does or not.

A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

We become what we think about all day long.

What you see is what it is!

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.