Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station.

-Addison,Joseph
  Cato, act 4, sc.1, l.319^21.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly everyaction and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

-Aristotle
Nicomachean Ethics, bk.1, ch.1,1093 (translated by Sir David Ross).

Human good turns out to be activity of soul exhibiting excellence, and if there is more than one sort of excellence, in accordance with the best and most complete.Foroneswallowdoesnot makea summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

-Aristotle
Nicomachean Ethics, bk.1, ch.7,1098 (translated by Sir David Ross).

   America, thou half-brother of the world; With something good and bad of every land.

-Bailey, PhilipJames
  Festus, sc.10.

L'homme n'est ni bon ni me¤  chant, il na|"t avec des instincts et des aptitudes. Manisneithergoodnorevil; heisbornwith instinctsand abilities.

-Balzac, Honore¤   de
  La Come¤  die humaine, foreword.

Le mal se fait sans effort, naturellement, par fatalite¤  ; le bien est toujours le produit d'un art. Evil is done without effort, naturally, it's destiny; good is always a product of art.

-Baudelaire, Charles
  Le Spleen de Paris,'Le Peintre de la vie moderne', pt.11.

   It is always good When a man has two irons in the fire.

-Beaumont, Francis and Fletcher,John
  The Faithful Friends, act1.

Only reasoncan convinceus ofthosethreefundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open.

-Bell, (Arthur) Clive Howard
  Civilization, ch.5.

And God saw that it was good.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Genesis1:10.

And the serpent said unto the woman,Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Genesis 3:4^5.

   I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Genesis 45:18.

God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that heshould repent: hathhesaid, and shall henot do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?

-Bible (Old Testament)
Numbers 23:19.

Theyare all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms14:3.

O taste and see that the L isgood: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.O fear the L, ye his saints: for there isno wanttothemthat fear him.The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the L shall not want any good thing.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDORDORDPsalms 34:8^10.

And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Zechariah11:12.

That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew 5:45.

To will is present with me; but how to perform that which isgood I find not. For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Romans 7:19.

And we know that all things work together for good to 120 them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Romans 8:28.

Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Romans12:21.

Prove all things; hold fast that which isgood.

-Bible (NewTestament)
  Thessalonians 5:21.