“Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.”

“Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.”

“Lo, sleep is good, better is death--in sooth
The best of all were never to be born.”

“It was good to be alive; it was better to be young; it was best of all to be in love.”

“The best of our fiction is by novelists who allow that it is as good as they can give, and the worst by novelists who maintain that they could do much better if only the public would let them.”

“It is better to be beautiful then to be good, but it is better to be good then to be ugly.”

“Do your best and let God do the rest.”

“Hope for the best, be prepared for the worse. Life is shocking, but you must never appear to be shocked. For no matter how bad it is it could be worse and no matter how good it is it could be better.”

“If you are going to take your clothes off for something, it better be a good cause.”

“An excellent master is always better than an excellent law. Let your laws be ever so good, if the lawmakers are bad, all will come to nothing.”