Goodness

Famous quotes containing the word goodness:

“Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.”
—John Jay Chapman (1862–1933)

“It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

“It is not so important that many should be good as you, as that there be some absolute goodness somewhere; for that will leaven the whole lump.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)