“As he thinks, so he is; as he continues to think, so he remains.”

“It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.”

“Not every man is so great a coward as he thinks he is — nor yet so good a Christian.”

“The propagandist merely wishes you to think as he does. The educator is more modest; he is so delighted if you think at all that he is willing to let you do so in your own way.”

“80. He that is warme thinkes all so.”

“He had come so far from himself that I don't
think he knew who he was anymore.”

“It is certainly true that whatever a man may do or say, the most significant thing about him is what he thinks; and significant also is how he came to think it, why he continued to think it, or, if he did not continue, what the influences were which caused him to change his mind.”

“Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.”

“There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.”

“There is not a man who does not get senile by the time he reaches sixty. And when one thinks that he will not be senile, he is already so.”