Quotes about Integrity

To highlight the mistakes of a person and gloss over the greater good is to draw a caricature. Caricatures are amusing, but they are often ugly and dishonest.

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

...that freshness of feeling, that delicate honor which shrinks from wounding even a sentiment...

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.

But when there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

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 highest compact we can make with our fellow, is, — 'Let there be truth between us two forevermore.'

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

He who has conquered weakness, and has put away all selfish thoughts, belongs neither to oppressor nor oppressed. He is free.

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.