313 quotes found
“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 b...”
“Wise men appreciate all men for they see the good in each and know how hard it is to make anything good.”
“Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactor.”
“We know the good we apprehend it clearly. But we can't bring it to achievement.”
“For an inheritance to be really great the hand of the defunct must not be seen.”
“The age of strong belief is over the good is no longer always very good.”
“For the cause that lacks assistance The wrong that needs resistance For the future in the distance And the good that I can do.”
“Be good sweet maid and let who will be clever Do noble things not dream them all day long And so make life death and that vast forever One grand sweet song.”
“Since good the more Communicated more abundant grows.”
“A glass is good and a lass is good. And a pipe to smoke in cold weather The world is good and the people are good And we're all good fellows together.”
“He that does good for good's sake seeks neither praise nor reward though sure of both at last.”
