No good Book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at
first.

No good Book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at
first.

To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.

To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less read more

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

Goodness speaks in a whisper, evil shouts

Goodness speaks in a whisper, evil shouts

Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.

Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.

Because indeed there was never law, or sect, or opinion, did so
much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion read more

Because indeed there was never law, or sect, or opinion, did so
much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.

A good man, through obscurest aspirations
Has still an instinct of the one true way.
[Ger., Ein read more

A good man, through obscurest aspirations
Has still an instinct of the one true way.
[Ger., Ein guter Mensch, in seinem dunkeln Drange,
Ist sich des rechten Weges sohl bewusst.]

There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would read more

There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.