Whatever mitigates the woes or increases the happiness of others is a
just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or
any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity. One should not quarrel
with a dog without a reason sufficient to vindicate one through all the
courts of morality.--_Goldsmith._
The true and good resemble gold. Gold seldom appears obvious and solid,
but it pervades invisibly the bodies that contain it.--_Jacobi._
He is good that does good to others. If he suffers for the good he does,
he is better still; and if he suffers from them to whom he did good, he
is arrived to that height of goodness that nothing but an increase of
his sufferings can add to it; if it proves his death, his virtue is at
its summit,--it is heroism complete.--_Bruyere._