Quotes About Values

No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true.

Good, but not religious-good.

Character building begins in our infancy, and continues until death.

If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself.

In Victorian times the purpose of life was to develop a personality once and for all and then stand on it.

The man whose conscience never troubles him must have it pretty well trained.

The great hope of society is individual character.

Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take away with us.

Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart from it.

Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.

A civilized society is one that exhibits the five qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art and peace.

Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and the sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.

A sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act accordingly to their beliefs.

If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Look for a sweet person. Forget rich.

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there is no God.

What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?

I have often though morality may perhaps consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

I had rather be hissed for a good verse than applauded for a bad one.

Culture, with us, ends in headache.

When one bases his life on principle, 99 percent of his decisions are already made.

I get a little angry about this highhanded scrapping of the look of things. What else have we to go by? How else can the average person form an opinion of a girl's sense of values or even of her chastity except by the looks of her conduct?