Quotes About Morality

Could you be an old maid if you had worn the scarlet letter?

I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.

A man fashions ill for himself who fashions ill for another, and the ill design is most ill for the designer.

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.

Man is neither good nor bad; he is born with instincts and abilities.

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which he can never arise.

A man does not necessarily sin who does that which our reason and our conscience condemn.

I think of a man and I take away reason and accountability.

Man's destiny is nowhere spelled out, nor is his duty.

But for we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare... are to be found portrayed in it.

Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with.

Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God's critters tempting decent men.

It is motive alone that gives real value to the actions of men, and disinterestedness puts the cap to it.

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.

What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself.

The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint.

A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way.

A man can be prevented from breaking into other persons' houses by shutting him up, but shutting him up may not alter his disposition to commit burglary.

Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste.

Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.

That soul that can Be honest is the only perfect man.