Quotes about Reflection

O Reader! had you in your mind Such stores as silent thought can bring, O gentle Reader! you would find A tale in every thing. What more I have to say is short, And you must kindly take it: It is no tale; but, should you think, Perhaps a tale you'll make it.

But oft, in lonely rooms, and mid the din Of towns and cities, I have owed to them, In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart, And passing even into my purer mind With tranquil restoration;—feelings too Of unremembered pleasures; such, perhaps, As have made no trivial influence On that best portion of a good man's life; His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.

So that almost a doubt within me springs   Of Providence, such emptiness at length   Seems at the heart of all things. But, great God!   I measure back the steps which I have trod

Resigned to vacant musing, Unreproved neglect of all things And deliberate holiday.

They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude And then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils

I heard a thousand blended notes, While in a grove I sat reclined, In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts, Bring sad thoughts to the mind." William Wordsworth

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

I have watched this famous island descending incontinently, fecklessly, the stairway which leads to a dark gulf.

Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse.

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.