Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
Saul Bellow
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde
All good things are wild, and free.
Henry David Thoreau
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
George Linnaeus Banks
This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
That good diffused may more abundant grow.
William Cowper
Doing good, Disinterested good, is not our trade.
William Cowper
Now, at a certain time, in pleasant mood, He tried the luxury of doing good.
George Crabbe
Look around the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.
John Dryden
On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time.
George Orwell
There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
Michel de Montaigne
How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good dead in a naughty world.
William Shakespeare
Do not be afraid to hear about virtue and do not be a stranger to the term. For it is not distant from us nor is it external to us; its realisation lies within us and the work is easy if only we want it. The Greeks leave home and cross the seas in order to gain an education, but there is no need for us to go away on account of the Kingdom of God nor need we cross the sea in search of virtue. For the Lord has told us, "The Kingdom of God is within you." All that is needed for goodness is that which is within, the human heart.
Saint Anthony the Great