Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm.

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.

It is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good man.

A good man will never suspect his friends of shady actions: this is part of his goodness. A good man will never be suspected by the public of using his goodness to screen villains: this is part of his utility

The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Be thou good thyself, and let people speak evil of thee; it is better than to be wicked, and that they should consider thee as good.

Yes, the idiot is indeed the good man, but only because he doesn't know any better.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.

Living or dead, to a good man there can come no evil.