genuine goodness Quotes

It is easier to be virtuous than it is to appear so, and it pays better.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

Virtue is safe only when it is inspired.

It must be a good thing to be good or ivrybody wudden't be pretendin' he was.

A modest dress is a very good thing, if it be the genuine indication of a humble heart, and is to instruct; but it is a bad thing if it be the hypocritical disguise of a proud ambitious heart, and is to deceive. Let men be really as good as they seem to be, but not seem to be better than really they are.

underneath all that denial, you're someone who's deeply, deeply nice.