Quotes About Morality

Their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.

Even were a cook to cook a fly, he would keep the breast for himself.

It is almost impossible to throw dirt on someone without getting a little on yourself.

A Christian could even give thanks for Hell, because Hell was a threat and a warning to keep him in the right way.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife unless the one is to be sold, and the other to be buried.

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly everybody will side with you when you are in the right.

That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of the same kind; not only the same end must be proposed, but the same means must be approved by both.

The gentleman is a Christian product.

The real nature of an ethic is that it does not become an ethic unless and until it goes into action.

By his deeds we know a man.

To be is to do.

Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.

What most counts is not to live, but to live aright.

There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.

We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights.

Happy the man who knows his duties!

The one thing worth living for is to keep one's soul pure.

An honest God is the noblest work of man.

God, to be God, must transcend what is. He must be the maker of what ought to be.

God is what man finds that is divine in himself. God is the best way man can behave in the ordinary occasions of life, and the farthest point to which man can stretch himself.

What you do not want others to do to you, do not do to others.

What thou thyself hatest, do to no man.

Whatsoever thou wouldst that men should not do to thee, do not do that to them.

As ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.