“ We are not wrong, perhaps, to be heedful of justice in the midst of a universe that heeds not at all; as the bee is not wrong to make honey in a world that itself can make none. But we are wrong to de… Maurice Maeterlinck
“ Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature. Maurice Maeterlinck
“ When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough. Maurice Maeterlinck
“ 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. Maurice Maeterlinck
“ At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past. Maurice Maeterlinck
“ I have done what I could do in life and if I could not do better I did not deserve it. In vain I have tried to step beyond what bound me. Maurice Maeterlinck
“ (there is) no other means of escaping from one's consciousness than to deny it, to look upon it as an organic disease of the terrestrial intelligence - a disease which we must endeavor to cure by an a… Maurice Maeterlinck
“ There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts. Maurice Maeterlinck
“ All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing. Maurice Maeterlinck
“ You do well to have visions of a better life than of every day but it is the life of every day from which the elements of a better life must come. Maurice Maeterlinck
“ The future is a world limited by ourselves-in it we discover only what concerns us. Maurice Maeterlinck
“ 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. Maurice Maeterlinck
“ Nothing befalls us that is not of the nature of ourselves. There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts. Maurice Maeterlinck
