It’s necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.
An honest man’s word is as good as his bond.
You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet!
What creature but a madman would not rather do good than ill, when it is plain that, good or ill, it must return upon himself?
There is no book so bad, but something good may be found in it.
There is a price for being good the same as for being bad; a cost to pay. And it’s the good men that can’t deny the bill when it comes around. They can’t deny it, like the honest man that gambles. The bad men can deny it; that’s why don’t anybody expect them to pay on sight or any other time. But the good can’t.
The only good human being is a dead one.
No matter how good a man is, there’s always some horse can pitch him.
He did not say that because he knew that if you said a good thing it might not happen.
And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
You can’t have good fortune and doom simultaneously.
Whoever has not got a good father should procure one.