#Morality Quotes

“To do a great right do a little wrong.”

“Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.”

“Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence, But never tax'd for speech.”

“Tis a blushing shame-faced spirit that mutinies in a man's bosom. It fills a man full of obstacles. It made me once restore a purse of gold that (by chance) I found. It beggars any man that keeps it.”

“Ingratitude is monstrous; and for the multitude to be ingrateful were to make a monster of the multitude; of which we being members, should bring ourselves to be monstrous members.”

“Every subject's duty is the Kings, but every subject's soul is his own.”

“Conscience is a thousand swords.”

“The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our own virtues.”

“My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent.”

“Love thyself last, cherish those hearts that hate thee;Corruption wins not more than honesty.”

“O heresy in fair, fit for these days,A giving hand, though foul, shall have fair praise.”

“Corruption wins not more than honesty.”

“Well, I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man.”

“Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lender's books, and defy the foul fiend.”

“Past all shame, so past all truth.”

“Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.”

“But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive.”

“The blood of youth burns not with such excess as gravity's revolt to wantonness.”

“I beseech you,Wrest once the law to your authority:To do a great right, do a little wrong.”

“To kill, I grant, is sin's extremest gust;But, in defence, by mercy, 'tis most just.”

“To offend and judge are distinct offices, And of opposed natures.”

“Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven; Whilst, like a puff'd and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads And recks not his own read.”

“In limited professions there's boundless theft.”

“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”

“All offences come from the heart.”

“Policy sits above conscience.”

“I am afeard there are few die well that die in battle, for how can they charitably dispose of anything when blood is their argument?”

“The trail of the serpent reaches into all the lucrative professions and practices of man. Each has its own wrongs. Each finds a tender and very intelligent conscience a disqualification for success. Each requires of the practitioner a certain shutting of the eyes, a certain dapperness and compliance, an acceptance of customs, a sequestration from the sentiments of generosity and love, a compromise of private opinion and lofty integrity.”

“All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal.”

“What a benefit would the American government, not yet relieved of its extreme need, render to itself, and to every city, village and hamlet in the States, if it would tax whiskey and rum almost to the point of prohibition! Was it Bonaparte who said that he found vices very good patriots? "He got five millions from the love of brandy, and he should be glad to know which of the virtues would pay him as much." Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.”

“Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this.”

“We must trust infinitely to the beneficent necessity which shines through all laws. Human nature expresses itself in them as characteristically as in statues, or songs, or railroads, and an abstract of the codes of nations would be an abstract of the common conscience.”

“The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.”

“Live, let live, and help live”

“Most of the great results of history are brought about by discreditable means.”

“Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.”

“Whoever fights, whoever falls, Justice conquers evermore”

“The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.”

“There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old.”

“Freedom is not the right to do as you please, but the liberty to do as you should.”

“I could better eat with one who did not respect the truth or the laws, than with a sloven and unpresentable person. Moral qualities rule the world, but at shorter distances, the senses are despotic.”

“I'll not meddle with it; it is a dangerous thing; it makes a man a coward; a man cannot steal, but it accuseth him; a man cannot swear, but it checks him; a man cannot lie with his neighbor's wife, but it detects him. 'Tis a blushing, shame -faced spirit, that mutinies in a man's bosom ; it fills one full of obstacles; it made me once restore a purse of gold that by chance I found; it beggars any man that keeps it; it is turned out of all towns and cities for a dangerous thing; and every man that means to live well endeavors to trust to himself and live without it.”

“To lapse in fulness Is sorer than to lie for need, and falsehood Is worse in kings than beggars.”

“Light and lust are deadly enemies.”

“When a whole nation is roaring patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and the purity of its heart.”

“To give money to a sufferer is only a come-off. It is only a postponement of the real payment, a bribe paid for silence, a creditsystem in which a paper promise to pay answers for the time instead of liquidation. We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man.”

“They that touch pitch will be defiled.”

“A little integrity is better than any career.”

“Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply,- "'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die."”

“I will not live out of me I will not see with others' eyes My good is good, my evil ill I would be free.”