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.

In any event, a truth that disheartens, because it is true, is still of far more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.

All mothers are rich when they love their children. There are no poor mothers, no ugly ones, no old ones. Their love is always the most beautiful of joys.

Sacrifice may be a flower that virtue will pluck on its road, but it was not to gather this flower that virtue set forth on its travels.

It is death that is the guide of our life, and our life has no goal but death.

The dog who meets with a good master is the happier of the two.

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.