A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. Read Summary
There is something good in men that really yearn for discipline. Read Summary
There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it. Read Summary
Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward. Read Summary
If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better. Read Summary
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good. Read Summary
Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it. Read Summary
I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good. Read Summary
You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle. Read Summary
If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to mix with their children when young; for much mischief thence ensues, and our natural inclinations are unto evil rather than unto good. Read Summary
Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you. Read Summary
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. Read Summary
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference. Read Summary
The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil. Read Summary
It sounds simple telling people to work hard and never quit, but to really execute and demonstrate those principles takes discipline and faith. Those are the two factors that I believe separate the good from the great, the successes from the failures. Read Summary
There is no doubt that some plant food, such as oatmeal, is more economical than meat, and superior to it in regard to both mechanical and mental performance. Such food, moreover, taxes our digestive organs decidedly less, and, in making us more contented and sociable, produces an amount of good difficult to estimate. Read Summary
The power to do good is also the power to do harm. Read Summary
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor. Read Summary
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. Read Summary
Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil. Read Summary