Any man may easily do harm but not every man can do good to another.

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness you have good manners no matter what fork you use.

I don't know if high society is different in other cities but in Hollywood important people can't stand to be invited someplace that isn't full of other important people. They don't mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners.

What's the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant superficial and uninformed.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

It is a fact often observed that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion who cannot write well under other circumstances.

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others the more he benefits himself The more he gives to others the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself the other appreciates what others can understand the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent the second good and the third kind useless.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men while envy is base and belongs to the base for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

To be good is noble but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

If money help a man to do good to others it is of some value but if not it is simply a mass of evil and the sooner it is got rid of the better.

If I am walking with two other men each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.