Goodness

"The crest and crowning of all good, Life's final star, is Brotherhood."

"None But such as are good men can give good things, And that which is not good, is not delicious To a well-governed and wise appetite."

"Since good, the more Communicated, more abundant grows."

"A glass is good, and a lass is good, And a pipe to smoke in cold weather; The world is good, and the people are good, And we're all good fellows together."

"I know and love the good, yet ah! the worst pursue."

"Itidemque ut sæpe jam in multis locis, Plus insciens quis fecit quam prodens boni."

"Bono ingenio me esse ornatam, quam auro multo mavolo. Aurum fortuna invenitur, natura ingenium donum. Bonam ego, quam beatam me esse nimio dici mavolo."

"Every good thing is gentle and consistent, progressing in good order and not going beyond what is right."

"Gute Menschen können sich leichter in schlimme hineindenken als diese injene."

"You're good for Madge or good for Cis Or good for Kate, maybe: But what's to me the good of this While you're not good for me?"

"Esse quam videri bonus malebat."

"What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon also be beautiful."

"Bonitas non est pessimis esse meliorem."

"So shines a good deed in a weary world."

"There lives within the very flame of love A kind of wick or snuff that will abate it; And nothing is at a like goodness still; For goodness, growing to a pleurisy, Dies in his own too much."

"Your great goodness, out of holy pity, Absolv'd him with an axe."

"I am in this earthly world; where to do harm, Is often laudable, to do good sometime Accounted dangerous folly."

"My meaning in saying he is a good man is to have you understand me that he is sufficient."

"For the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, Do all the good you can, To all the people you can, In all the ways you can, As long as ever you can."

"For who is there but you? who not only claim to be a good man and a gentleman, for many are this, and yet have not the power of making others good. Whereas you are not only good yourself, but also the cause of goodness in others."

"How pleasant is Saturday night, When I've tried all the week to be good, Not spoken a word that is bad, And obliged every one that I could."

"The Infinite, from which comes the impulse that lead us to activity, is not [...] the highest Goodness, but higher than goodness."

"She has more goodness in her little finger than he has in his whole body."

"O, yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill, To pangs of nature, sins of will Defects of doubt and taints of blood."

"'Tis only noble to be good."

"Man should be ever better than he seems."

"Le plus grand ennemi du bon, c'est le mieux."

"Live for something! Do good and leave behind you a monument of virtue that the storm of time can never destroy. Write your name in kindness, love, and mercy on the hearts of the thousands you come in contact with, year by year, and you will never be forgotten. Your name, your deeds, will be as legible on the hearts you leave behind, as the stars on the brow of evening. Good deeds will shine as the stars of heaven."

"Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are. To be is the great thing."

"How many people would like to be good, if only they might be good without taking trouble about it! They do not like goodness well enough to hunger and thirst after it, or to sell all that they have that they may buy it; they will not batter at the gate of the kingdom of heaven; but they look with pleasure on this or that aerial castle of righteousness, and think it would be rather nice to live in it."

"Great hearts alone understand how much glory there is in being good."

"Be good my child, and let who will be clever; Do noble deeds, not dream them all day long; And so make life, death, and that vast forever One grand, sweet song."

"Be not simply good; be good for something."

"No good thing is ever lost. Nothing dies, not even life which gives up one form only to resume another. No good action, no good example dies. It lives forever in our race. While the frame moulders and disappears, the deed leaves an indelible stamp, and moulds the very thought and will of future generations."

"For ever and ever, my darling, yes— Goodness and love are undying; Only the troubles and cares of earth Are winged from the first for flying. Our way we plough In the furrow "now;" But after the tilling and growing the sheaf; Soil for the root, but the sun for the leaf— And God keepeth watch forever."

"Nothing that man ever invents will absolve him from the universal necessity of being good as God is good, righteous as God is righteous, and holy as God is holy."

"He who believes in goodness has the essence of all faith. He is a man "of cheerful yesterdays and confident to-morrows.""

"We cannot rekindle the morning beams of childhood; we cannot recall the noontide glory of youth; we cannot bring back the perfect day of maturity; we cannot fix the evening rays of age in the shadowy horizon; but we can cherish that goodness which is the sweetness of childhood, the joy of youth, the strength of maturity, the honor of old age, and the bliss of saints."

"One person I have to make good: myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy—if I may."