All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else’s religion, but he’ll accept his gold.

Life is about conduct and how we conduct ourselves. But two wrongs never make a right.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all possible superstitions, as long as they are not murderous, than to live without religion.

On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, ‚Is it safe?‘ Expediency asks the question, ‚Is it politic?‘ And Vanity comes along and asks the question, ‚Is it popular?‘ But Conscience asks the question, ‚Is it right?‘

For my own part, I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen the representative of our country. He is a bird of bad moral character. He does not get his living honestly.

God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour’s buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Fill the earth with your songs of gratitude.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God’s will.

He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Every sin is the result of a collaboration.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Football changed my life and it gave me a platform to get out my aggression and it gave me a sense of value.

Many gold and silver experts will recommend you buy numismatic coins – rare and old coins. If you are not a rare coin expert, I’d encourage you to stay away from them. New investors often pay too much for rare coins that are not really rare.

There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.

Because of lack of moral principle, human life becomes worthless. Moral principle, truthfulness, is a key factor. If we lose that, then there is no future.

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

Allah’s the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

We must accept what science tells us, that man was born from the earth. But, more logical than the scientists who lecture us, we must carry this lesson to its conclusion: that is to say, accept that man was born entirely from the world – not only his flesh and bones but his incredible power of thought.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?