Quotes About Morality

Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

Every man prefers virtue, when there is not some strong incitement to transgress its precepts.

Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.

He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.

Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.

Conscience is a man's compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though one often perceives irregularities in directing one's course by it, still one must try to follow its direction.

A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity

Virtuous men alone possess friends.

There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.

For I had often said that the best argument I knew for an immortal life was the existence of a man who deserved one as well as Child did.

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.

The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.

Ladies ...any man that lusts after you will answer to God for his mental adultery...but you will answer to God if you provoked him by the manner in which you are dressed.

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

A man of integrity will never listen to any reason against conscience.

The science that studies the supreme good for man is politics.

Wicked me obey from fear; good men,from love.

Wicked men obey for fear, but the good for love.

And it is characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes family and a state.

Virtue alone is sufficient to make a man great, glorious, and happy.

Tis against some mens principle to pay interest, and seems against others interest to pay the principle.

The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth.

A man's penmanship is an unfailing index of his character, moral and mental, and a criterion by which to judge his peculiarities of taste and sentiments.