Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.

You can not lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse.

I do not believe it is in our nature to love impartially. We deceive ourselves when we think we can love two beings, even our own children, equally. There is always a dominant affection.

So you think the police foresees and knows everything. The police invents more than it discovers.

When people cease to complain, they cease to think.

A soul you say? Give my pocketwatch to a savage and he'll think it has a soul.

In order not to be astonished at obtaining victories, one ought not to think only of defeats.

I pay attention only to what people do or say. I never pay attention to what they think.

Everything is more or less organized matter. To think so is against religion, but I think so just the same.