“I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.”
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“A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.”
“The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.”
“Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.”
“A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.”
“If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.”
“The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.”
“Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.”
“I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.”
“Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.”
“The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.”
“Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.”
“I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.”
“There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.”
“Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.”
“Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.”
“In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.”
“Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.”
“Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.”
“How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.”
“Be not simply good - be good for something.”
“Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.”
“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”
“Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.”