If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. read more

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.

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

To do good and be evil spoken of, is kingly.
[Lat., Bene facere et male audire regium est.]

To do good and be evil spoken of, is kingly.
[Lat., Bene facere et male audire regium est.]

There shall never be one lost good! What was shall live as
before;
The evil is null, is read more

There shall never be one lost good! What was shall live as
before;
The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying sound;
What was good shall be good, with, for evil, so much good more;
On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an
evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable read more

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an
evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil
that they set out to destroy.

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to read more

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

Whatever any one does or says, I must be good.

Whatever any one does or says, I must be good.

All good things are wild, and free.

All good things are wild, and free.