If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.

If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.

True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

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

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

Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good read more

Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.

For all their luxury was doing good.

For all their luxury was doing good.

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.

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.]

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

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

All good things are wild, and free.

All good things are wild, and free.