Quotes About Good

Happily the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens in giving it on all occasions their effectual support.

Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth.

Ideas are not intellectuals' toys: ideas have consequences, for good and for ill, in what even intellectuals sometimes call "the real world".

Mine is a parish like all the rest.  They're all alike.  Those of to-day I mean.  I was saying so only yesterday to M. le Curé de Norenfontes—that good and evil are probably evenly distributed, but on such a low plane, very low Indeed! Or if you like they lie one over the other; like oil and water they never mix.  M. le Curé only laughed at me.

Many stubborn errors of assertion and denial, he went on, are the result of some good minds in each generation having claimed to do the work of twenty or a hundred and claiming, at the same time, that they have put their finger on the "heart of the matter.

my memory is reasonably good—unlike yours, dear sir!" "Mine is erratic," he said imperturbably. "I remember only what interests me.

We could take at face value that we are elect because we have such good fortune already. And then we could proceed to act like spendthrifts because life is short and we don't fear the consequences.

I never really believed in Satan, or that there was pure evil in the world, until I came here.

There were good places and bad places to tell stories and there were of course stories that could not be told in any place on earth and these were reserved for heaven. 

evil will never permanently triumph.

A woman had thrown her own babe down a well. When she was brought to answer for the murder, she said that one great good had come of her evil act. At last, she said, she was free of the uncertainty that had plagued her every waking thought: was she numbered among the damned or the saved? Her whole life had been bent about that question. Finally, she knew.

He who imitates what is evil always goes beyond the example that is set; on the contrary, he who imitates what is good always falls short.

The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.

None can love freedom heartily, but good men - the rest love not freedom, but licence.

The character of human life, like the character of the human condition, like the character of all life, is "ambiguity": the inseparable mixture of good and evil, the true and false, the creative and destructive forces - both individual and social.

Did you ever have one of those nights when you didn't want to go out, but your hair looked too good to stay home?

There is a great difference between a good physician and a bad one; yet very little between a good one and none at all.

So long as the body is affected through the mind, no audacious device, even of the most manifestly dishonest character, can fail of producing occasional good to those who yield to it an implicit or even a partial faith.

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars: general good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer. For art and science cannot exist but in minutely organized particulars.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know, and all of heaven we have below.

Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than the dull prospect of a distant good.

Our opportunities to do good are our talents.

Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.