"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."

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

"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."

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

"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."

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

"Man should be ever better than he seems."

"'Tis only noble to be good."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

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

"Bonitas non est pessimis esse meliorem."

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

"Esse quam videri bonus malebat."

"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?"

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

"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."

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

"Si veris magna paratur Fama bonis, et si successu nuda remoto Inspicitur virtus, quicquid laudamus in ullo Majorum, fortuna fuit."

"The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in."

"Segnius homines bona quam mala sentiunt."

"Weiss Dass alle Länder gute Menschen tragen."

"Be good, sweet maid, and let who can be clever; Do lovely things, not dream them, all day long; And so make Life, and Death, and that For Ever, One grand sweet song."

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

"Rari quippe boni: numero vix sunt totidem quot Thebarum portæ, vel divitis ostia Nili."

"How near to good is what is fair!"

"Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth?"

"He was so good he would pour rose-water on a toad."

"God whose gifts in gracious flood Unto all who seek are sent, Only asks you to be good And is content."

"Vir bonus est quis? Qui consulta patrum, qui leges juraque servat."

"If goodness leade him not, yet wearinesse May tosse him to my breast."

"Impell'd with steps unceasing to pursue Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view, That, like the circle bounding earth and skies, Allures from far, yet, as I follow, flies."

"And learn the luxury of doing good."

"Ein guter Mensch, in seinem dunkeln Drange, Ist sich des rechten Weges wohl bewusst."

"For all their luxury was doing good."