One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.

Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet.

God has set his intentions in the flowers, in the dawn, in the spring, it is his will that we should love.

She had had sweet dreams, which possibly arose from the fact that her little bed was very white.

Hope is a delusion; no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow.

Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.

Proverty and wealth are comparative sins.