Quotes about Morals

The laws of friendship are great, austere, and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals.

In a virtuous community, men of sense and of principle will always be placed at the head of affairs. In a declining state of public morals, men will be so blinded to their true interests as to put the incapable and unworthy at the helm. It is therefore vain to complain of the follies or crimes of a government. We must lay our hands on our own hearts and say 'Here is the sin that makes the public sin'.

Opinions are preferences amid options. Convictions are woven into one's conscience.

Progress is a farce because man's head and hand have created wonders that stun the imagination, but his heart does not keep step and his morals undo all that his mind has wrought.

While I reiterate the professions of my dependence upon Heaven... I will observe that... no man who is profligate in his morals... can possibly be a true Christian.

Man's actions are the picture book of his creeds.

A man cannot have character unless he lives within a fundamental system of morals that creates character.

What is the disposition which makes men rejoice in good bargains? There are few people who will not be benefited by pondering over the morals of shopping.

The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion-these are the two things that govern us.