GOODNESS, Quotes

GOODNESS, QUOTES

“He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars:

General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer.”

—William Blake, Jerusalem

“Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good.”

—Karl Barth, Christian Community

“The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.”

—Charles Lamb, “Table Talk”

“There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.”

—Michel de Montaigne, Essays

Merriam-Webster, Inc: The Merriam-Webster Dictionary of Quotations. Springfield, Mass. : Merriam-Webster, 1992, S. 171

“How far that little candle throws his beams!

So shines a good deed in a naughty world.”

—Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

Merriam-Webster, Inc: The Merriam-Webster Dictionary of Quotations. Springfield, Mass. : Merriam-Webster, 1992, S. 171