Should we not invariably act in this life as though the God whom our heart desires with its highest desire were watching our every action? - Maurice Maeterlinck

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together ... Speech is too often ... the act of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal ... Speech is of Time, silence is of Eternity ... It is idle to think that, by means of words, any real communication can ever pass from one man to another ...

There may be human joy in doing good with definite purpose, but they who do good expecting nothing in return know a joy that is divine.