“Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.”
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Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
To think is of itself to be useful it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
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.
There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.
