There’s a good spot tucked away somewhere in everybody. You’ll be a long time finding it, sometimes.
There is not sufficient love and goodness in the world to permit us to give some of it away to imaginary beings.[Es ist nicht genug Liebe und Güte in der Welt, um noch davon an eingebildete Wesen wegschenken zu dürfen.]
There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.
There can be no true goodness nor true love without the utmost clear-sightedness.[Il n’y a pas de vraie bonté ni de bel amour sans toute la clairvoyance possible.]
There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world and among cold, proud people.
The opportunity of doing mischief occurs a hundred times in a day, and that of doing good but once a year.[L’occasion de faire du mal se trouve cent fois par jour , et celle de faire du bien une fois dans l’année.]
The jurisdiction of a good man extends to the end of the world.
The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.[La perfection de la bienfaisance consiste à s’effacer si bien que l’obligé ne se croie pas inférieur à celui qui l’oblige; et ce dévouement caché comporte des douceurs infinies.]
The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to reverence.
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.[Keiner kann lang gut sein, wenn nicht Güte verlangt wird.]
Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.[Denn in Güte läßt sich gegen die Gewalt der Natur wenig ausrichten.]
