Quotes About Morality

A good honest and painful sermon.

God forgive me, I was sorry to hear that Sir W Pens maid Betty was gone away yesterday, for I was in hopes to have had a bout with her before she had gone, she being very pretty. I have also a mind to my own wench, but I dare not, for fear she should prove honest and refuse and then tell my wife.

He showed me a black boy that he had, that died of a consumption, and being dead, he caused him to be dried in an oven, and lies there entire in a box.

for I was in hopes to have had a bout with her before she had gone, she being very pretty. I had also a mind to my own wench, but I dare not for fear she should prove honest and refuse and then tell my wife.

The whole mechanism of guilt as a deterrent to right action is just as much a linguistic fault.

The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.

Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.

Good men must be affectionate men.

for my master, bad as I have thought him, is not half so bad as this woman.--To be sure she must be an atheist!

Well, but, Mrs. Jervis, said I, let me ask you, if he can stoop to like such a poor girl as me, as perhaps he may, (for I have read of things almost as strange, from great men to poor damsels,) What can it be for?—He may condescend, perhaps, to think I may be good enough for his harlot; and those things don't disgrace men that ruin poor women, as the world goes.

What is warranted by the direction of nature's light is warranted by the law of nature, and consequently by a divine law; for who can deny the law of nature to be a divine law?

So that originally, and Naturally, there is no such thing as Slavery. Joseph was rightfully no more a Slave to his brethren, then they were to him: and they no more Authority to Sell him, than they had to Slay him. [Genesis 37].

An unlawful war can't make lawful captives.

It's what I've always said. To be alive is a reflection on one's character.

If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil.

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

Good and bad men are less than they seem.

The present system of taking oaths is horrible. It is awfully absurd to make a man invoke God's wrath upon himself, if he speaks false; it is, in my judgment, a sin to do so.

He saw a lawyer killing a viper On a dunghill hard, by his own stable And the devil smiled, for it put him in mind Of Cain and his brother, Abel.

There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not worth preserving, if its existence may be tolerated; as there may be some men whom it may be proper to hang, but none should be suffered to starve.

It is absurd and dangerous to imagine that God would have approved and encouraged the moderate use of a substance which intoxicates our organism, irrespective of the amount consumed.

Baroness…of all the lies you've told, surely this is the one your should be most ashamed of.

I'm a true believer in karma. You get what you give, whether it's bad or good.

We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.