Morality Quotes

• A little neglect may breed great mischief.

• To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

• To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

• It's not that we don't have enough scoundrels to curse; it's that we don't have enough good men to curse them.

• I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.

• I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.

• Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken the wrong position.

• We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin.

• I believe one of the reasons so many do not get a higher education is the fear of their parents that they will lose more morally than they will receive mentally.

• You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.

• Only the sinner has the right to preach.

• Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

• Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

• Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

• A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

• Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease.

• I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell -- you see, I have friends in both places.

• I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately.

• If I must choose between righteousness and peace, I choose righteousness.

• If I must choose between righteousness and peace, I choose righteousness.

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