Prayer is the petition of man to the Creator.

Service is a condition which law provides for all men so that the Creator may answer them.

Meditation is study.

Work is realization.

Let us observe the propriety of the statement in simple terms.

A noble sowing is a silent petition of nature that verdure and bread may be made.

But if the cultivator does not put forth sufficient effort, the live entreaty disappears.

An edifying book is the sublime appeal of the spirit to which education and culture are erected.

But if man does not scrutinize its leaves in apprenticeship, the wise appeal withers in vain.

Music, even the divine, if it should reside exclusively in the written notes, is melody which was not born.

Invention without experiment is unproductive thought.

Let us pray, my brothers, but let us pray while serving.

A proper building is not erected without an adequate plan.

But the word, however beautiful, without the correct construction, will always be a mummified dream in the tables of geometry.

Albino Teixeira