morality Quotes

Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.

Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.

The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.

Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.

Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of the mouths of other people.

A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.