GOOD NATURE

Addison, Joseph
Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.—It shows virtue in the fairest light; takes off, in some measure, from the deformity of vice; and makes even folly and impertinence supportable.

Beecher, Henry Ward
Good nature, like a bee, collects honey from every herb. Ill nature, like the spider, sucks poison from the sweetest flower.
Good nature is one of the richest fruits of true Christianity.

Good nature is often a mere matter of health.—With good digestion we are apt to be good natured; with bad digestion, morose.

Dryden, John
Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue—I mean good nature—are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and the staff of life.

Good sense and good nature are never separated; and good nature is the product of right reason.—It makes allowance for the failings of others by considering that there is nothing perfect in mankind; and by distinguishing that which comes nearest to excellence, though not absolutely free from faults, will certainly produce candor in judging.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Good nature is stronger than tomahawks.

Franklin, Benjamin
A shrewd observer once said, that in walking the streets of a slippery morning, one might see where the good natured people lived, by the ashes thrown on the ice before the doors.

Goldsmith, Oliver
The current of tenderness widens as it proceeds; and two men imperceptibly find their hearts filled with good nature for each other, when they were at first only in pursuit of mirth and relaxation.

Goodman, Godfrey
Good nature is the very air of a good mind; the sign of a large and generous soul, and the peculiar soil in which virtue prospers.

Hanway, Jonas
Good nature is the beauty of the mind, and like personal beauty, wins almost without anything else—sometimes, indeed, in spite of positive deficiencies.

Irving, Washington
An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.