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.

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

(there is) no other means of escaping from one's consciousness than to deny it, to look upon it as an organic disease of the terrestrial intelligence - a disease which we must endeavor to cure by an action which must appear to us an action of violent and willful madness, but which, on the other side of our appearances, is probably an action of health. ("Of Immortality")

The manner in which the hours of freedom are spent determines, no less than labor and war, the moral worth of a nation.

Is not every action of Hamlet induced by a fanatical impulse, which tells him that duty consists in revenge alone? And dose it need superhuman efforts to recognize that revenge never can be duty? I say again that Hamlet thinks much, but that he is by no means wise.

It is the evil that lies in ourselves that is ever least tolerant of the evil that dwells within others.

The souls of all our brethren are ever hovering about us, craving for a caress, and only waiting for the signal.