The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
Themes
Virtue
Right action when no one is keeping score.
If it is not right, do not do it. If it is not true, do not say it.
That which is not good for the hive cannot be good for the bees.
He merits praise who does what he ought to do, not what he is allowed to do.
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
Compassion is the basis of morality.
There are no moral phenomena at all, only a moral interpretation of phenomena.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Appreciation is a wonderful thing: it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.
Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.