Morality Quotes

"One can be a saint in an evil world, but it is quite difficult for an ordinary man to be honest in that way" "The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues" "A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right" "What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing." "Men are cruel, but Man is kind." "Truth is the highest thing that man may keep" "When all is said and done, the one who is right will prevail" "I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there's purpose and worth to each and every life." "If we ever forget that we are one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under." "Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door" "No one gossips about other people's secret virtues" "When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear" "The soul is perfected by knowledge and virtue" "Good conduct arises out of good doctrine" "Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth." "Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment." "We have in fact two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach" "There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life." "Virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private" "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws"