Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are. To be is the great thing.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
To love God is to have good health, good looks, good sense, experience, a kindly nature and a fair balance of cash in hand.
Samuel Butler
Honesty consists not in never stealing but in knowing where to stop in stealing, and how to make good use of what one does steal.
Samuel Butler
Having lots of ideas doesn't mean you're clever, any more than having lots of soldiers means you're a good general.
Nicolas Chamfort
The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
Marcus Porcius Cato
An honest man's word is as good as his bond.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
If I had married a woman intelligent enough to guide me, to rule me without my feeling that I was ruled, I should have taken good care of my money, I should have had children, and I should not be, as now I am, alone in the world and possessing nothing.
Giacomo Casanova
The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
Alan Alda
We run, not only because we think it is doing us good, but ... because it helps us to do other things better.
Sir Roger Gilbert Bannister
No one is bound to be clever, but every one is under an obligation to be good.
Jean Louis Guez de Balzac
Good and evil keep very exact accounts... and the face of every man is their ledger.
James Branch Cabell
Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough that we should try again.
Julia Cameron
Sex in space is not just a good idea, it's survival.
Vanna Bonta
When you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye, Think, The good outnumber you, and we always will.
Patton Oswalt