It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.

How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.

They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors.

Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.

No great inner event befalls those who summon it not.

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.

A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.

Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?

We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth man would only have four years left to live.

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future tradition has placed 10000 men to guard the past.

An obstacle is not a discouragement. It may become one but only with our own consent. So long as we refuse to be discouraged we cannot be discouraged.

When we lose someoe we love our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

We can be born thus more than once; and each birth brings us a little nearer to our God.

People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.

Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness.

I'd get 3-4 cheap home runs every year. You know, little 'wood shots' down either line. They would be pop flies in any other park. But, goodness me, they didn't count the number of long outs!

Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil.

The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal.

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!

I think the most that I've learned has been, how do I put this? The innate goodness inside of all of us.

The way of a man's heart will be foreshadowed by what goodness lies in him - coming from above, and from around; but a way foreshadowed is not a way made.

There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Thank goodness I started getting movie roles and then television shows came along. So I was very fortunate to be able to do all three and I like all of them.

After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power, and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

From this it follows that con-sideration for other persons or for other living beings is very vital for goodness and want of consideration for other people makes human beings selfish, regardless for other people's good.

He has a number of curious facts in illustration of the power of mere goodness to protect against outrage.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

In our open society, we are inclined to give to the less fortunate for the pure goodness of giving. We open our home to those who are alone on this holiday to spread some warmth into the life of another.

The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world.

Goodness means the highest degree of popularity.

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.

In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness.

No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.