On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time.

On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time.

Can one desire too much of a good thing?

Can one desire too much of a good thing?

Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.

Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.

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

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

What's the good of it? for whose advantage?
[Lat., Cui bono?]

What's the good of it? for whose advantage?
[Lat., Cui bono?]

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

For all their luxury was doing good.

For all their luxury was doing good.

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.

Look around the habitable world, how few
Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.

Look around the habitable world, how few
Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.