Quotes about Morality

The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice.

The more laws and order are made prominent,The more thieves and robbers there will be.

It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

First, whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but his passions, which have got the better of his creed. A bad life and a good belief are disagreeable and troublesome neighbors, and where they separate, depend upon it, 'Tis for no other cause but quietness sake.

Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

Never… be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel.

So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected." ( Frauds on the Fairies , 1853)

If you can't get to be uncommon through going straight, you'll never get to do it through going crooked. [...] live well and die happy.

what I want you to be - I don't mean physically but morally: you are very well physically - is a firm fellow, a fine firm fellow, with a will of your own, with resolution. with determination. with strength of character that is not to be influenced except on good reason by anybody, or by anything. That's what I want you to be. That's what your father, & your mother might both have been

I confess I have yet to learn that a lesson of the purest good may not be drawn from the vilest evil.