Quotes About Morality

A man who is good enough to go to heaven is good enough to be a clergyman.

Good men must be affectionate men.

No honest man will argue on every side

The good man brings good to things out of the good stored up in his heart.

Why should men love the Church? Why should they love her laws? She tells them of Life and Death, and of all that they would forget.

When men no longer have the least fear of saying something untrue, they very soon have no fear whatsoever of doing something unjust.

No man in the world acts up to his own standard of right.

Hemingway shot himself. I don't like a man that takes the short way home.

For my part, I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses,--the very easiest to be deadened when wakened, and in some never wakened at all.

Do not cast away an honest man for a villain's accusation.

If she be not honest, chaste, and true, there's no man happy.

Do all men kill the things they do not love?

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

Tis a blushing shame-faced spirit that mutinies in a man's bosom. It fills a man full of obstacles. It made me once restore a purse of gold that (by chance) I found. It beggars any man that keeps it.

Verily God does not reward man for what he does, but for what he is.

Taint no law on earth dat kin make a man be decent if it aint in 'im.

Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty.

A man's ledger does not tell what he is, or what he is worth. Count what is in man, not what is on him, if you would know what he is worth-whether rich or poor.

Good men are not those who now and then do a good act, but men who join one good act to another.

For never, never, wicked man was wise.

A good father and a good outlaw can't settle inside the same man.

For himself, then. For his idea of the world, a world in which men do not use shovels to beat corpses into a more convenient shape for processing.

A man's worth is estimated in this world according to his conduct.

The punishment of a criminal is an example to the rabble; but every decent man is concerned if an innocent person is condemned.