“It is a flattening Thought, that the more we have seen, the less we have to say.”

Observing how experience can dampen the impulse to speech · Letter to James Gillman, 9 October 1825

• Experience
• Reflection
• Speech

“There is one art, of which every man should be master, the art of reflection. If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?”

Urging the habit of reflection as essential to true humanity · Aids to Reflection, Author's Preface

• Reflection
• Self Knowledge
• Thought