Why should the way I feel depend on the thoughts in someone else's head?

Doing well is a result of doing good.

He who does a good deed is instantly ennobled. He who does a mean deed is by the action itself contracted.

Shakespeare possesses the power of subordinating nature for the purposes of expression, beyond all poets. His imperial muse tosses the creation like a bauble from hand to hand, and uses it to embody any caprice of thought that is uppermost in his mind. The remotest spaces of nature are visited, and the farthest sundered things are brought together, by subtle spiritual connection. We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative, and all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of the poet.

And what avails it that science has come to treat space and time as simply forms of thought, and the material world as hypothetical, and withal our pretension of property and even of self-hood are fading with the rest, if, at last, even our thoughts are not finalities, but the incessant flowing and ascension reach these also, and each thought which yesterday was a finality, to-day is yielding to a larger generalization?

All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties.

The first questions are always to be asked, and the wisest doctor is gravelled by the inquisitiveness of a child.