One friend in a lifetime ismuch; two are many; three are hardly possible.Friendship needs a certainparallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

-Adams, Henry Brooks
  The Education of Henry  Adams, ch.20.

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slipperyand thought is viscous.

-Adams, Henry Brooks
  The Education of Henry  Adams, ch.31,'The Grammar of Science'.

It must be soöPlato, thou reason'st well!ö Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into naught? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought!

-Addison,Joseph
  Cato, act 5, sc.1, l.1^10.

Thought shall be the harder, heart the keener, courage the greater, as our might lessens.

-Anonymous
c.1000  The Battle of Maldon (translated by R K Gordon).

   Id quo maius non cogitari potest. That than which a greater cannot be thought.

-St Anselm
  Of God. Proslogion, ch.3. His famous ontological argument for the existence of God. Since a being that exists is necessarily greater than a being that does not, God must by this definition exist.

I am bound by my own definition of criticism: a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.

-Arnold, Matthew
  Essays in Criticism First Series,'The Function of Criticism at the Present Time'.

It is not in the outward and visible world of material life that the Celtic genius of Wales or Ireland can at this day hope to count for much; it is in the inward world of thought and science.What it has been, what is has done, what it will be or will do, as a matter of modern politics.

-Arnold, Matthew
  'On the Study of Celtic Literature'.

'To beginwith,' hesaid heavily,'you've gottounderstand that a seagull is an unlimited idea of freedom, an image of the Great Gull, and your whole body, from wingtip to wingtip, is nothing more than your thought itself.'

-Bach, Richard
  Jonathan Livingston Seagull.

The function of music isto release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.

-Beecham, SirThomas
Quoted in Harold  Atkins and  Archie Newman Beecham Stories (1978).

What is to prevent a daily newspaper from being made the greatest organ of social life? Books have had their dayöthe theatres have had their dayöthe temple of religion has had its day. A newspaper can be made to take the lead of all these in the great movements of human thought and of human civilisation. A newspaper can send more souls to Heaven, and save more from Hell, than all the churches or chapels in New Yorköbesides making money at the same time.

-Bennett,James Gordon, Snr
  In the NewYork Herald,19  Aug.

O L, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo,O L, thou knowest it altogether. Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDORDPsalms139:1^6.

   It is not the constant thought of their sins, but the vision of the holiness of God that makes the saints aware of their own sinfulness.

-Sourozh
  Living Prayer.

When you come to the end of a perfect day, And you sit alone with your thought, While the chimes ring out with a carol gay For the joy that the day has brought, Do you think what the end of a perfect day Can mean to a tired heart, When the sun goes down with a flaming ray, And the dear friends have to part?

-Bond, CarrieJacobs
  'A Perfect Day'.

   We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness, Which we from time to time most grievouslyhave committed,By thought, word, and deed, Against thy Divine Majesty, Provoking most justly thy wrath and indignation against us.

-Book of Common Prayer
Holy Communion, General Confession.

Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.

-Browning, Robert
  Dramatis Personae,'A Death in the Desert'.

Our doom is, to be sifted by the wind, heaped up, smoothed down like silly sands. We are less permanent than thought.

-Bunting, Basil
  Villon, pt.1.

None are so desolate but something dear, Dearer than self, possesses or possessed A thought, and claims the homage of a tear.

-Rochdale
^18  Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, canto 2, stanza 24.

Language is called the garment of thought: however, it should rather be, language is the flesh-garment, the body, of thought.

-Carlyle,Thomas
^4  Sartor Resartus, bk.1, ch.11.

The end of man is an action and not a thought, though it were the noblest.

-Carlyle,Thomas
^4  Sartor Resartus, bk.2, ch.6.

Perish the thought!

-Cibber, Colley
  Richard III, act 5 (his adaptation of Shakespeare's play).