All the beautiful sentiments in the world
weigh less than a single lovely action.
weigh less than a single lovely action.
- James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891)

We know what a person thinks
not when he tells us what he thinks,
but by his actions.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904 - 1991)
not when he tells us what he thinks,
but by his actions.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904 - 1991)


One act of beneficence,
one act of real usefulness,
is worth all the abstract sentiment
in the world.
is worth all the abstract sentiment
in the world.
- Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764

Action is eloquence.
- William Shakespeare

