Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men. [Lat. , Homines ad deos nulla re propius accedunt, quam salutem hominibus dando. ]
For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave; in bed, beauty before goodness.
Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
Truth, Goodness, Beauty - those celestial thrins,Continually are born; e'en now the Universe,With thousand throats, and eke with greener smiles,Its joy confesses at their recent birth.
Man should be ever better than he seems.
Goodness, how much there is to learn about food!
I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don't want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.
Goodness is generous and diffusive; it is largeness of mind, and sweetness of temper,--balsam in the blood, and justice sublimated to a richer spirit.
Nothing is rarer than real goodness.
In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised.
Everything good is instinct--and, as a result, easy, necessary, free.
Whatever there is of God and goodness in the universe, it must work itself out and express itself through us. We cannot stand aside and let God do it.
In this place of gracious uncertainty, we wait. For the broken places to be brought back together. For the meaning of our suffering to be revealed in his. For the righteous reign of a mighty God, whose goodness we will spend all eternity celebrating. We wait - with open, expectant hearts.
Goodness will find the little boy. It always has. It will again.
The sanguine assurance that men and nations can be legislated into goodness, that pressure from without is equivalent to a moral change within, needs a strong backing of inexperience.
We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.
The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to reverence.
Ignorance is the evil - knowledge will be the remedy. Knowledge not of what sort of beings we shall be hereafter, or what is beyond the skies, but a knowledge pertaining to terra firma, and we may have all the power, goodness and love that we have been taught belongs to God himself.
I am lucky to be what I am! Thank goodness I'm not just a clam, or a ham, or a dusty jar of sour gooseberry jam! I am what I am - that's a great thing to be!
Jesus Christ was an extremist for love, truth and goodness.