He who so interprets the supreme good as to disjoin it from virtue, an — Goodness

"Only those few people who practice it believe in goodness."

"The Infinite, from which comes the impulse that lead us to activity, is not [...] the highest Goodness, but higher than goodness."

"If the function of man is an activity of soul which follows or implies a rational principle, ... and we state the function of man to be a certain kind of life, and this to be an activity or actions of the soul implying a rational principle, and the function of a good man to be the good and noble performance of these, and if any action is well performed when it is performed in accordance with the appropriate excellence: if this is the case, human good turns out to be activity of soul in accordance with virtue, and if there are more than one virtue, in accordance with the best and most complete."

"How many simple pleasures I denied myself, because I thought thats what goodness was. How stupid that it took me until the end of the world to realize it was something else entirely."

"Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever."

"No good thing is ever lost. Nothing dies, not even life which gives up one form only to resume another. No good action, no good example dies. It lives forever in our race. While the frame moulders and disappears, the deed leaves an indelible stamp, and moulds the very thought and will of future generations."