Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.
The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
