Quotable Quotes

Benjamin Haydon:

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

Blaise Pascal:

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but by the heart.

Charles Dickens:

Charity begins at home and justice begins next door.

Cicero:

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

Confucius:

He who wishes to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.

Dorothy Rowe:

We would like to believe that we are not in the business of surviving but in being good, and we do not like to admit to ourselves that we are good in order to survive.

Elbert Hubbard:

Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.

The Roycroft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams, 1923