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- Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
- A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing.
- John Tillotson (1630 - 1694)
- Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making.
- John Milton (1608 - 1674)
- Learn to limit yourself, to content yourself with some definite thing, and some definite work; dare to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not and to believe in your own individuality.
- Henri-Frédéric Amiel
- I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
- Ettiene De Grellet
- Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
- Democritus (460 BC - 370 BC)
- The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and to hold them in the right scale of values.
- Norman Thomas (1884 - 1968)
- You will find it a very good practice always to verify your references sir.
- Martin Routh
- A large part of virtue consists in good habits.
- William Paley
- He who spares the wicked injures the good.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
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