Quotes about Morality

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, and that his justice will not sleep forever.

New York, like London, seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all the depravities of human nature.

God grant that men of principle shall be our principal men.

Everything is useful which contributes to fix in the principles and practices of virtue.

The contest is not between Us and Them, but between Good and Evil, and if those who would fight Evil adopt the ways of Evil, Evil wins.

Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is Just

Say nothing of my religion. It is known to my God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life; if that has been honest and dutiful to society, the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.

He who permits himself to tell a lie once finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, 'til at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.

For the ones who are called saints by human opinion on earth may very well be devils, and their light may very well be darkness

Conscience is the light by which we interpret the will of God in our own lives.

As a matter of fact, it is often harder to manifest the good that is in us than the evil.

I was entering into a moral universe in which I would be related to every other rational being, and in which whole masses of us, as thick as swarming bees, would drag one another along towards some common end of good or evil, peace or war.