Be not simply good - be good for something.
It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.
Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.