Maurice Maeterlinck

"We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them."

"All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing."

"At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past."

"We possess only the happiness we are able to understand."

"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."

"Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness."