Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.

I've gone pretty high at times so I think the yin yang of that is going pretty low.

It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

I've never been a calm, midrange type person.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

You can know a person is a good person or a bad person by who they are, not by what they look like.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

I'm really 95 percent Mr. Rogers, and only 5 percent Oscar the Grouch.'

For every Mother Teresa, there's a Jeffrey Dahmer.

I'd like to be reincarnated as a French tart. They're so beautiful and delicate - they're like my opposite. I'm more of a comfort food: goat cheese with garlic.

No philosopher's stone of a constitution can produce golden conduct from leaden instincts.

You can't have bad without good. You can't have right without wrong. You can't have fantastic without mundane. You need to experience all that to really earn the title of the film, 'Fantastic Four.'

Being a 'good man' is something you do, not something you are.

I always loved playing extreme opposites, whether it's internal or external.

I'm a child of extremes.

I can be chill. That's a side of me that I like. But then, I can also be not so chill. I can get a little stressed out.

There is nothing called negative character. The negativity and positivity exists in all of us.

Of all parts of wisdom, the practice is the best. Socrates was esteemed the wisest man of his time because he turned his acquired knowledge into morality, and aimed at goodness more than greatness.

I think I'm a weird combination of deeply introverted and very daring. I can feel both those things working.

When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.

The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow.

Good nature is often a mere matter of health.

it is the modern nature of goodness to exert itself quietly, while a few characters of the opposite cast seem, by the rumor of their exploits, to fill the world; and by their noise to multiply their numbers.

Ah, Miss Harriet, it would do us no harm to remember oftener than we do, that vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!