Talking is not 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 is not 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.

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.

It is like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you do not know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It is 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 did not 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 do not listen and if one plays bad music people do not talk.

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

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 is cottage princes palaces.

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