313 quotes found
“I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices can do.”
“If Innocent is happy, it is because he is innocent. If he can defy the conventions, it is just because he can keep the commandments. It is just because he does not want to kill but to excite to lif...”
“No,' said Gould, with an unusual and convincing gravity; 'I do not believe that being perfectly good in all respects would make a man merry.' 'Well,' said Michael quietly, 'will you tell me one thi...”
“Good things when short are twice as good.”
“In nature nothing can be given all things are sold.”
“The meaning of good and bad of better and worse is simply helping or hurting.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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 not ...”
“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.”
“When thou doest alms do not let thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.”
“Be good sweet maid and let who can be clever.”
“I have found men more kind than I expected and less just.”
“There is so much good in the worst of us and so much bad in the best of us that it's rather hard to tell which of us ought to reform the rest of us.”
“If you're naturally kind you attract a lot of people you don't like.”
“All strangers and beggars are from Zeus and a gift though small is precious.”
“Behold! I do not give lectures on a little charity. When I give I give myself.”
