The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that. Its use is for… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“No,' said Gould, with an unusual and convincing gravity; 'I do not believe that being perfectly good in all respects would make… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
These reflections made me very sensible of the goodness of Providence to me, and very thankful for my present condition, with all… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
Never be afraid of What is good; the good is always the road to what is true. — Philip Gilbert Hamerton Copy Share Image
She has more goodness in her little finger than he has in his whole body. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I am not a foodie, thank goodness. I will eat pretty much anything. A lot of my friends are getting incredibly fussy… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Although it is true that only about 20 percent of American workers are in unions, that 20 percent sets the standards across… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
If there be any one whose power is in beauty, in purity, in goodness, it is a woman. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
We are so convinced of the goodness of ourselves, and the goodness of our love, we cannot bear to believe that there… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
For centuries the church has confronted the human community with role models of greatness. We call them saints when what we really… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
America's greatness rests on far more than the power of our arms. Our greatness is also measured by our goodness, it's in… — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
Marry me. Nay, marriage will cost us precious moments together. Let us make sweet, passionate love right here. Let me bear your… — Kiersten White Copy Share Image
Goodness," Tessa said to the back of his head. "If you keep seeing Six-Fingered Nigel like this, he'll expect you to declare… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I am good to people who are good. I am also good to people who are not good. Because Virtue is goodness. — Laozi Copy Share Image
The biggest mischief in the past century has been perpetrated by Rousseau with his doctrine of the goodness of human nature. The… — Jacob Burckhardt Copy Share Image
Oh, my goodness, when we came to the farm in 1961, I mean, it wouldn't even support one salary. — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
The truth is that there are no good men, or bad men,' he said. 'It is the deeds that have goodness or… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
Little mouse, you were so quick, so bright, so sweet, so full of life. And you still are everything you were then.… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Living well has something to do with the spirituality of wholeheartedness, of seeing life more as a grace than as a penance,… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
If you are going to learn mathematics, you have to learn it not simply as an abstraction but as it is applied.… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
If you believe that God overrules all things for good, and only permits apparently evil happenings for good and the achievement of… — Henry Thomas Hamblin Copy Share Image
You can choose instead to live in the enriching, empowering light of your own highest visions. You can always choose to grow,… — Ralph Marston Copy Share Image
“During intellectual droughts one shower of good ideas can cause a flash-flood to wash away the roads your habits travel.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
