Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

Necessity never made a good bargain.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something.

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

Do not believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That is what capitalism is all about.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It is good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

Show me a good loser, and I will show you a loser.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what's happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We do not seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.