“To think is of itself to be useful it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.”
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Change your opinions, keep to your principles change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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.