La vivacité qui augmente en vieillissant ne va pas loin de la folie. - François de La Rochefoucauld

Avant que de désirer fortement une chose, il faut examiner quel est le bonheur de celui qui la possède.

398. — Of all our faults that which we most readily admit is idleness: we believe that it makes all virtues ineffectual, and that without utterly destroying, it at least suspends their operation.

Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary by sense.