An action is essentially good if the motive of the agent be good, regardless of the consequences.

One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.

It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

We come no nearer the infinitude of the creative power of God, if we enclose the space of its revelation within a sphere described with the radius of the Milky Way, than if we were to limit it to a ball an inch in diameter. All that is finite, whatever has limits and a definite relation to unity, is equally far removed from the infinite... Eternity is not sufficient to embrace the manifestations of the Supreme Being, if it is not combined with the infinitude of space.

...as soon as we examine suicide from the standpoint of religion we immediately see it in its true light. We have been placed in this world under certain conditions and for specific purposes. But a suicide opposes the purpose of his creator; he arrives in the other world as one who has deserted his post; he must be looked upon as a rebel against God. God is our owner; we are his property; his providence works for our good.

In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.

Physicians think they are doing something for you by labeling what you have as a disease