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

I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness.

No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.

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

I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I figured was the perfect story. Thank goodness it was rejected.

Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.

There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.

Goodness and hard work are rewarded with respect.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.

The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.

Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.

Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?

I know there is a Supreme Being who rules the affairs of men and whose goodness and mercy have always followed the American people, and I know He will not turn from us now if we humbly and reverently seek His powerful aid.

Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.

You should also appreciate the goodness around you, and surround yourself with positive people.

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