Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes

I'm one of these people who tries to look for the good in people, but I've learnt that, actually, no, some people fundamentally just are not nice.

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.

Fill the seats of justice With good men, not so absolute in goodness As to forget what human frailty is.

Our common education is not intended to render us good and wise, but learned: it hath not taught us to follow and embrace virtue and prudence, but hath imprinted in us their derivation and etymology;

In the common run of mankind, for one that is wise and good you find ten of a contrary character.

Think of what a paradise this world would be if men were kind and wise.

If it wasn't for good," my mother says, "we human beings would have been wiped out a long time ago. Either the monsters would have gotten us or we would have killed each other off with greed and jealousy and anger. So we have to believe in good. We have to look for the good in ourselves.

Life is about using the whole box of crayons.

There is a variety in tempers of good men.

Gentlemen, let us suppose that man is not stupid. (Indeed one cannot refuse to suppose that, if only from the one consideration, that, if man is stupid, then who is wise?) But if he is not stupid, he is monstrously ungrateful! Phenomenally ungrateful. In fact, I believe that the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.

Being in humaneness is good. If we select other goodness and thus are far apart from humaneness, how can we be the wise?

Let's stop believing that our differences make us superior or inferior to one another. Let's not be afraid that our different colors make us different people. Who cares? It's just a lie, and we don't have to believe all the lies and superstitions that control our lives.

I believe we're brutes, but then, miraculously, there are those among us who stand up against that brutishness and remind us of the goodness we're capable of.

God is like us to this extent, that whatever in us is good is like God.

As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.

My beliefs are now one hundred percent against racism and segregation in any form and I also believe that we don't judge a person by the color of his skin but rather by his deeds.

In all superstition wise men follow fools.

God is too good to be unkind, too wise to be mistaken; and when you cannot trace His hand, you can trust His heart.

The least foolish is wise.

I love tranquil solitude, And such society As is quiet, wise, and good; Between thee and me What difference? but thou dost possess The things I seek, not love them less.

God hath varied the inclinations of men according to the variety of actions to be performed.

If we believe in a God at all, we must surely ascribe to him perfection of wisdom and perfection of goodness; we are then forced to conceive of Him - however strange it may sound to those who believe, not only without seeing but also without thinking - as without will, because He must always necessarily pursue the course which is wisest and best.

I believe it's true that there's good and evil in everyone and it's a constant struggle to have your better angels prevail.

My heart contains of good, wise, just, the perfect shape.

It's impossible for me to feel like there's only one way to do a thing. There's nothing wrong with having one way of doing it, but I think it's a bad habit. I believe in range. Like, there's a lot of tunes that I play all the time-sometimes I hear 'em in a different register. And if you don't have complete freedom, or you won't let yourself get away from that one straight line, oh, my goodness, that's too horrible to even think about.