Good quotes

The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

I had a stick of CareFree gum, but it didn't work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that bubble, but as soon as the gum lost its flavor, I was back to pondering my mortality.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice.

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well and yet words are not deeds.

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.

I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.