Maurice Maeterlinck Quote

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.


As quoted in The New Dictionary of Thoughts : A Cyclopedia of Quotations (1960) by Tryon Edwards and C. N. Catrevas, p. 259.


An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.