The Methods of Ethics (1884), p. 381
“A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.”
“We can do more good by being good than in any other way.”
P. 217.
“To be good and lead a good life means to give to others more than one takes from them.”
Source: The First Step (1892), Ch. VII
"I think so-"
"Shut up! That was not a question!"
Source: The Keys to the Kingdom series, Sir Thursday (2006), p. 124.
1 Cababe & Ellis' Q. B. D. Rep. 134.
Reg. v. Ramsey (1883)
“There is more to be learned from any good teacher than the subject taught.”
Volume 2, Ch. 1
Fiction, The Book of the Long Sun (1993–1996)
The John Clifford Lecture at Coventry (14 July 1930), published in This Torch of Freedom (1935), p. 46.
1930
Context: There is a saying as old as the Greeks that it is more important to form good habits than to frame good laws. There is an undercurrent of suspicion that this is true and that, like patriotism, legislation is not enough. The hopes held out when laws are framed are not always realised when laws are passed... What happens to all the laws placed on the statute book? If half the hopes of their promoters had been realised, would not the millennium have arrived ere this?
A Guide for the Perplexed
