A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of Restraint.
The man who can articulate the movements of his inner life need no longer be a victim of himself, but is able slowly and consistently to remove the obstacles that prevent the spirit from entering.
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals.
In presence of Nature's grand convulsions, man is powerless.
Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness.
A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.
The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.