Good Quotes

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings!

Dark things have always existed but they used to be in a proper balance with good when life was slower.

While you are upon the earth, enjoy the good things that are here.

It must be remembered that there is no real reason to expect anything in particular from mankind; good and evil are local expedients—or their lack—and not in any sense cosmic truths or laws.

Good books don’t give up all their secrets at once.

A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in, not out.

Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.

When we are working at a difficult task and strive after a good thing, we are fighting a righteous battle, the direct reward of which is that we are kept from much evil.

War seldom ever leads to good results.

To what is good I open the doors of my being, and jealously shut them against what is bad. Such is the force of this beautiful and wilful conviction, it carries itself in the face of all opposition. I am never discouraged by absence of good. I never can be argued into hopelessness.

To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better.