An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

Above all, let us never forget that an act of goodness is in itself an act of happiness. It is the flower of a long inner life of joy and contentment; it tells of peaceful hours and days on the sunniest heights of our soul.

Many a happiness in life, a many a disaster, is due to chance alone; but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.

How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.

Each man has to seek out his own special aptitude for a higher life in the midst of the humble and inevitable reality of daily existence. Than this, there can be no nobler aim in life.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness.

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing. A day will come when science will turn upon its error and no longer hesitate to shorten our woes. A day will come when it will dare and act with certainty; when life, grown wiser, will depart silently at its hour, knowing that it has reached its term.