Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.

It is far, far better and much safer to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.

Every thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.

Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.

Your mind’s got to eat, too.

Not all heads have a brain.

Is there no way out of the mind?

To be too conscious is an illness—a real thoroughgoing illness.

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing

Imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.

The mind is not, I know, a highway but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.

Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.