Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.

Thomas à Kempis

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Thomas à Kempis, CRV (c. 1380 – 25 July 1471; German: Thomas von Kempen; Dutch: Thomas van Kempen) was a German-Dutch canon regular of the late medieval period and the author of The Imitation of Christ, published anonymously in Latin in the Netherlands c. 1418–1427, one of the most popular...

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