Not always actions show the man; we find Who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

The stellar universe is not so difficult of comprehension as the real actions of other people.

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

Not all of those to whom we do good love us, neither do all those to whom we do evil hate us.

The profit on a good action is to have done it.

Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.

Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make them worthless, or transform our sins into elements of a new civilisation, more marvelous and more splendid than any that has gone before.

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds.