Quotes About Morality

A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district - all studied and appreciated as they merit - are the principal support of virtue, morality, and civil liberty.

He is ill clothed that is bare of virtue.

Serving God is doing good to man. But praying is thought an easier service and is therefore more generally chosen.

Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it's hurtful.

Use no hurtful deceit think innocently and justly and if you speak, speak accordingly.

Would you live with ease, Do what you ought, and not what you please.

Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.

A truly great man will neither trample on a worm nor sneak to an emperor

Imitate Jesus and Socrates

Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no ambition corrupt thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou always live jollily; for a good conscience is a continual Christmas.

He is ill clothed, who is bare of virtue.

Tis hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

O vitae Philosophia dux! O virtutum indagatrix expultrixque vitiorum! Unus dies, bene et ex praeceptis tuis actus, peccanti immortalitati est anteponendus. translation (non-literal): O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher of virtues and expeller of vices! Just a single day lived well and according to your lessons is to be preferred to an eternity of errors. — Cicero, As quoted in Ben Franklin's Autobiography

How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.

If you eat one another, I don't see why we may not eat you.

nothing was useful which was not honest.

Conviction that it was out Interest to be completely virtuous, was not sufficient to prevent our Slipping...

Keep Conscience clear, then never fear.

Nothing so likely to make a man's fortune as virtue.

When you are good to others you are best to yourself.

several of us were corrected by our fathers; and though I pleaded the usefulness of the work, mine convinced me that nothing was useful which was not honest.

Doing an Injury puts you below your Enemy; Revenging one makes you but even with him; Forgiving it sets you above him.

convinc'd that truth, sincerity and integrity in dealings between man and man were of the utmost importance to the felicity of life;