Only basic goodness gives life to technique.

Character Ethic as the foundation of success - things like integrity, humility, fidelity, temperance, courage, justice, patience, industry, simplicity, modesty, and the Golden Rule. Benjamin Franklin's autobiography is representative of that literature. It is, basically, the story of one man's effort to integrate certain principles and habits deep within his character.

literature in the first 150 years or so focused on what could be called the Character Ethic as the foundation of success—things like integrity, humility, fidelity, temperance, courage, justice, patience, industry, simplicity, modesty, and the Golden Rule.

Will we be extremists for hate, or will we be extremists for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice, or will we be extremists for the cause of justice?

The ground of mercy is love, and the working of mercy is our keeping in love.

Justice from Love, and Love from Justice.

As Christians, our compassion is simply a response to the love that God has already shown us.

I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God.

Love is the motive, but justice is the instrument.

Equal laws protecting equal rights…the best guarantee of loyalty and love of country.

Power is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice is love correcting everything that goes against love.

How do we transform mere power into justice, mere sentiment into love?