313 quotes found
“No good deed ever goes unpunished.”
“Be good sweet maid and let who can be clever.”
“Good things are not done in a hurry.”
“We are all here on earth to help others what on earth the others are here for I don't know.”
“Why is it that when people have no capacity for private usefulness they should be so anxious to serve the public?”
“I have found men more kind than I expected and less just.”
“Is not a patron one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help?”
“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.”
“Good men need no recommendation and bad men it wouldn't help.”
“If you're naturally kind you attract a lot of people you don't like.”
“The good should be grateful to the bad - for providing the world with a basis for comparison.”
“All strangers and beggars are from Zeus and a gift though small is precious.”
“If a friend is in trouble don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.”
“The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and to have it found out by accident.”
“As Charles Lamb says there is nothing so nice as doing good by stealth and being found out by accident so I now say it is even nicer to make heroic decisions and to be prevented by 'circumstances...”
“Giving is the highest expression of potency.”
“If I knew ... that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good I should run for my life.”
“If I've learned anything in my seventy years it's that nothing's as good or as bad as it appears.”
“The Devil himself is good when he is pleased.”
“Wise men appreciate all men for they see the good in each and know how hard it is to make anything good.”
