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A good man shall obtain favor of the Lord.
Prov. 12:2
Goodness is the supreme beauty.
Be good, and let heaven answer for the rest.
There is no good that doth not cost a price.
A good horse cannot be of a bad color.
A good horse never lacks a saddle.
The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord,
And He delights in his way.
Psalms 37:23
A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children.
Prov. 13:22
A good name keeps its luster in the dark.
A good man standeth calm and strong, for God is his ally.
M. Tupper
Good ware makes a quick market.
There may be a certain pleasure in vice, but there is a higher
in purity and virtue. -- The most commanding of all delights
is the delight in goodness. -- The beauty of holiness is but
one beauty, but it is the highest. -- It is the loss of the
sense of sin and shame that destroys both men and states.
Independent
We may be as good as we please if we please to be good.
Barrow
He who loves goodness harbors angels, reveres reverence, and
lives with God.
Emerson
A good man is kinder to his enemy than bad men to their
friends.
Bp. Hall
A good man is influenced by God himself, and has a kind of
divinity within him; so it may be a question whether he goes
to heaven or heaven comes to him.
Seneca
It is only great souls that know how much glory there is in
being good.
Sophocles
How far that little candle throws his beams! so shines a good
deed in a naughty world!
Shakespeare
In the heraldry of heaven goodness precedes greatness, and so on
earth it is more powerful. The lowly and lovely may often do
more good in their limited sphere than the gifted.
George Horn
Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the
inward thing we are. To be good is the great thing.
E. H. Chapin
The soul is strong that trusts in goodness.
Massinger
There never was law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify
goodness as the Christian religion doth.
Bacon
He is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose
enemies are decidedly bad.
Lavater
Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the
greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it,
man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.
Bacon
To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to
overcome our evil feelings and intentions.
Penn
It is the edge and temper of the blade that makes a good sword,
not the richness of the scabbord; and so it is not money or
possessions that make man considerable, but his virtue.
Seneca
There is but one pursuit in life which it is in the power of
all to follow, and all to attain. It is subject to no
disappointments, since he that perseveres makes every
difficulty an advancement, and every conquest a victory; and
this is the pursuit of virtue. Sincerely to aspire after
virtue is to gain her; and zealously to labor after her ways
is to receive them.
Colton
To be able under all circumstances to practice five things
constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity
of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
Confucius
We rarely like the virtues we have not.
Shakespeare
Wealth is a weak anchor, and glory cannot support a man; this
is the law of God, that virtue only is firm, and cannot be
shaken by a tempest.
Pythagoras
The most virtuous of all men, says Plato, is he that contents
himself with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
Fenelon
The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good
principle was never found solitary in any breast.
Jane Porter
A large part of virtue consists in good habits.
Paley
The virtue of Paganism was strength; the virtue of
Christianity is obedience.
Hare
Virtue is uniform and fixed, because she looks for approbation
only from Him who is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Colton
Virtues go ever in troops; so thick that sometimes some are
hid in the crowd, which are yet virtues though they appear not.
Joseph Hall
Certainly, virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when
they are incensed or crushed; for prosperity doth best
discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
Bacon
Live virtuously, and you cannot die too soon, nor live too
long.
Lady Russell
While shame keeps its watch virtue is not wholly extinguished
in the heart.
Burke
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