313 quotes found
“I expect to pass though this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it for I shall n...”
“Pity costs nothin' and ain't worth nothin'.”
“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.”
“Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving mercy?”
“Bad is never good until worse happens.”
“Good and evil lie close together. Seek no artistic unity in character.”
“Gifts are hooks.”
“Good things when short are twice as good.”
“If I can in any way contribute to the Diversion or Improvement of the Country in which I live I shall leave it when I am summoned out of it with the secret Satisfaction of thinking that I have n...”
“In nature nothing can be given all things are sold.”
“Teach us to give and not to count the cost.”
“The meaning of good and bad of better and worse is simply helping or hurting.”
“Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart.”
“Unto whomsoever much is given of him shall much be required.”
“If a man wants to be of the greatest possible value to his fellow-creatures let him begin the long solitary task of perfecting himself.”
“We'd all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.”
“He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars.”
“General good is the plea of the scoundrel hypocite flatterer.”
“The word 'good' has many meanings. For example if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards I should call him a good shot but not necessarily a good man.”
“When thou doest alms do not let thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.”
