Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.

Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass

My mind tells me to give up, but my heart won't let me.

Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.

Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals

Thinking is to me the greatest fatigue in the world (The Relapse)