Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The word good has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. – John W. Gardner

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect. – Robert Louis Stevenson