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.