To meditate is to labour; to think is to act. Folded arms work, closed hands perform, a gaze fixed on heaven is a toil.

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.

True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.

Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that does not prevent them from being of use.

To know, to think, to dream. That is everything.

To meditate is to labour; to think is to act. Folded arms work, closed hands perform, a gaze fixed on heaven is a toil.

Revolution is the larva of civilization.