No good deed, no matter how small, goes unpunished.
Whoso is content with pure experience and acts upon it has enough of truth.
The man who acts never has any conscience; no one has any conscience but the man who thinks.
The consequences of every act are included in the act itself.
The beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.
No act of revenge is justified.
To love is to act.[Aimer, c’est agir.]
There were no second acts in American lives.
The most sublime act is to set another before you.
The men who act without thinking, and the men who both think and act, are the ones who mould the world. The man who thinks and does not act never moulds the world.
Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it than others, but we all do it.
Since all motives at bottom are selfish and ignoble, we may judge acts and qualities only be their effects.
