In contemplation and reverie, one thought introduces another perpetually; and it is by similarity, or the hooking of one upon the other, that the process of thinking is carried on.

Everything in the world is conducted by gradual process. This seems to be the great principle of harmony in the universe.

The greatest enemy of good thinking is busyness.

Woe to the man who is always busy - hurried in a turmoil of engagements, from occupation to occupation, and with no seasons interposed of recollection, contemplation and repose! Such a man must inevitably be gross and vulgar, and hard and indelicate - the sort of man with whom no generous spirit would desire to hold intercourse.

Most persons who indulge in second thought don't do much thinking when the subject is presented for first thought

Contemplation makes a rare turkey cock of him. How he jets under his advanced plumes!