D. Daar niets goeds in is, gaat niets goeds nit —Where 20 no good is in, no good comes out.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

When a child says he believes in God, it is not God he believes in, but Peter or James who told him that there is something called God, and he believes it after the fashion of Euripides— “O Jupiter, of whom I know nothing but thy name.”
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

In British Guiana it is now grown mainly for domestic consumption, and the same is true of French Guiana, which also imports.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

"So I see," said Sancho, "and God grant we may not light upon our graves; it is no good sign to find oneself wandering in a graveyard at this time of night; and that, after my telling your worship, if I don't mistake, that the house of this lady will be in an alley without an outlet."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Such gaiety is the last resource of men condemned to imprisonment on the galleys; it is nature giving her children some relief.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

You may be gone; it is not good you tarry here.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

You probably know that in Paris it is thus:—When the opera is finished it is rehearsed, and if these stupid Frenchmen do not think it good it is not given, and the composer has had all his trouble for nothing; if they approve, it is then put on the stage; as its popularity increases, so does the rate of payment.
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

And as for death, if there be any gods, it is no grievous thing to leave the society of men.
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

I got it in New Guinea in nineteen eleven, when I was prospecting for gold in the back country.
— from Faery Lands of the South Seas by James Norman Hall

It is good to be good; it is not good to be good in the hope of some ultimate gain thereby.
— from Notes on Islam by Hussain, Ahmed, Sir

If, perchance, such a seed fall on stony ground it is no great matter.
— from In the Open: Intimate Studies and Appreciations of Nature by Stanton Davis Kirkham

No doubt no man in all Morocco is secure in the enjoyment of his property; but then in order to be amenable to tyranny one must be rich, and as most tribesmen own but a horse or two, a camel, perhaps a slave, some little patch of cultivated ground or olive garden, it is not generally on them the extortion of the Government descends, but on the chief Sheikh, Kaid, or Governor, who, if he happens to be rich, can never sleep secure a single day, for he knows well some time he will be brought to Fez or to Morocco, thrust in a dungeon underground, and made to give up all he has on earth.
— from Mogreb-el-Acksa: A Journey in Morocco by R. B. (Robert Bontine) Cunninghame Graham

Then turning to LeNoir, he said, gravely: “It is not given me to punish you for your coward's blow.
— from The Man from Glengarry: A Tale of the Ottawa by Ralph Connor

The evening sky of life does not reflect those brilliant flashes of light that shot across its morning and noon, yet I think God it is neither gloomy nor disconsolately lowering—a sober twilight—that is all ." ILLUSTRATIONS.
— from The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford by Walter Scott

“So I see,” said Sancho, “and God grant we may not light upon our graves; it is no good sign to find oneself wandering in a graveyard at this time of night; and that, after my telling your worship, if I don’t mistake, that the house of this lady will be in an alley without an outlet.”
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Nobody expects a modern political system to proceed logically in the application of such dogmas, and in the matter of God and Government it is naturally God whose claim is taken more lightly.
— from What I Saw in America by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton