Quotes about Morality

Within us is something of divinity. One who has this knowledge and permits it to influence his life will not stoop to do a mean or cheap or tawdry thing.

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

No humane being... will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.

DEATH... To stop sinning suddenly.

Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary & virtuous function.

Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. People talk sometimes of secret vices. There are no such things. If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the moulding of his hands even.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.

Whether the succeeding generation is to be more virtuous than their predecessors I cannot say; but I am sure they will have more worldly wisdom, and enough, I hope, to know that honesty is the 1st chapter in the book of wisdom.

The universe does not favour the greedy, the dishonest, the vicious, although on the mere surface it may sometimes appear to do so; it helps the honest, the magnanimous, the virtuous.

He no longer acts from self, but does what is right— what is universally and eternally right.