Quotes About Morality

To give a man full knowledge of true morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.

We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

The virtues and the vices are all put in motion by interest.

Why should the devil have all the good tunes?

But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed.

Be noble in every thought And in every deed!

The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.

There is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decisions, the day's generous utterances and the day's good deed.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action to all eternity.

The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing.

It is rare that the public sentiment decides immorally or unwisely, and the individual who differs from it ought to distrust and examine well his own opinion.

Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.

Steal the hog, and give the feet for alms.

There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis.

Chivalry is a poor substitute for justice, if one cannot have both. Chivalry is something like the icing on cake, sweet, but not nourishing.

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No, if it were, men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It's a blunder, though, and is punished as such.

George Edward Herbert

None can pray well but he that lives well.

Religion without humanity is a poor human stuff.

The influence of prayer on the human mind and body ... can be measured in terms of increased physical buoyancy, greater intellectual vigor, moral stamina, and a deeper understanding of the realities underlying human relationships.

I would rather be right than President.

If principle is good for anything, it is worth living up to.

There is no other solution to a man's problems but the day's honest work, the day's honest decisions, the day's generous utterance, and the day's good deed.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses knife and fork?