Good Quotes

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

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.

The best is the enemy of the good.

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.

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

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.

There was nothing on earth so good that it had not something nasty about its first origin.[На земле нет ничего хорошего, что в своём первоисточнике не имело бы гадости.]

There never was a good War, or a bad Peace.

There is much difference between imitating a good man, and counterfeiting him.