It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.
It is necessary to look forward to a harvest, however distant that may be, when some fruit will be reaped, some good effected.
Evil can be undone, but it cannot "develop" into good.
You couldn't expect good times to last.
Everything is as good or bad as our opinion makes it.
There are better things ahead than what we leave behind.
The moment good taste knows itself, some of its goodness is lost.
There are far better things ahead than we leave behind.
Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness.
You are second and better; this was first and feeble.
Evil can be undone, but it cannot "develop" into good.
No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.
Good things happen to those who hustle.
To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.