The grandest of heroic deeds are those which are performed within four walls and in domestic privacy.
Jean Paul
Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.
circumstances action
Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.
deeds action
You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.
worth action
Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.
men
Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.
danger men
For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.
health sleep
Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
danger
Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.
poverty
The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.
results conscience
The virtues, like the body, become strong more by labor than by nourishment.
virtues labor
Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
distance
deeds privacy
The wish falls often warm upon my heart that I may learn nothing here that I cannot continue in the other world; that I may do nothing here but deeds that will bear fruit in heaven.
deeds
Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
paradise
The miracles of earth are the laws of heaven.
miracles
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