Quotes About Good

Our errors and our controversies, in the sphere of morality, arise sometimes from looking on men as though they could be altogether bad, or altogether good.

Often does good come out of evil. But that is God's, not man's plan.

We burn the evil men do with their mortal remains. We treasure the memory of the good they do, and distance magnifies it.

Every affliction tests our will, showing whether it is inclined to good or evil. That is why an unforeseen affliction is called a test, because it enables a man to test his hidden desires.

I will adhere to the counsels of good men, although misfortune and death should be the consequence.

But what virtue I do have is in me and of me. Men deny the good that comes from themselves, calling it God. So do they with their won evil, calling it the Devil.

When two good men contend about principles, both are always right.

The only real meaning in life can be found in a good man. And maybe Paris. Preferably the two together.

Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.

I could not understand why men who knew all about good and evil could hate and kill each other.

Even a good man sees evil days, as long as his good deed has not ripened; but when his good deed has ripened, then does the good man see happy days.

No man is so good as to be free from all evil, nor so bad as to be worth nothing.

There is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or evil, except at the very moment of execution.

Southern man better keep your head, don't forget what your good book says.

Neither conservatives nor humorists believe man is good. But left-wingers do.

Mike Pence is a good man, a principled conservative, and he will make a great vice president.

The good needs fear no law, It is his safety and the bad man's awe.

No one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.

A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.

Law is good, proper, and essential in its place, but law can save no man, nor can law remake man and society.

A man is the facade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide.

Intellect is a fire; rash and pitiless it melts this wonderful bone-house which is called man. Genius even, as it is the greatestgood, is the greatest harm.

We are such lovers of self-reliance, that we excuse in a man many sins, if he will show us a complete satisfaction in his position, which asks no leave to be, of mine, or any man's good opinion.

One cannot distinguish between human and non-human acts. One cannot point, one cannot say this man here is a man and that man there is a devil.