He decided not to think about it. A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. I have found power in the mysteries of thought. Thus only can you gain the secret isolated joy of the thinker, who knows that, a hundred years after he is dead and forgotten, men who never heard of him will be moving to the measure of his thought the subtle rapture of a postponed power, which the world knows not because it has no external trappings, but which to his prophetic vision is more real than that which commands an army.
Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
Every good thought you think is contributing its share to the ultimate result of your life. The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts. The ancestor of every action is a thought. I have had a good many more uplifting thoughts, creative and expansive visions, while soaking in comfortable baths in well-equipped American bathrooms than I have ever had in any cathedral. Heavy thoughts bring on physical maladies.