Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.
How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They're no good at all.
I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don't know why he's with me. I don't know whether I'm good enough. But if I make him happy, then I'm everything I want to be.
If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.
Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well and yet words are not deeds.
The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice.
A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
I had a stick of CareFree gum, but it didn't work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that bubble, but as soon as the gum lost its flavor, I was back to pondering my mortality.
The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.