The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.

Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote.

No young man ever thinks he shall die.

To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead.