The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.

The formation of one’s character ought to be everyone’s chief aim.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

Rascals are always sociable, more’s the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others‘ company.

Sin, also for those who don’t have faith, exists when one goes against one’s conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.

If someone lies, well, you had a choice to trust that person or not. I think the way my father raised me, well, he trusted everybody. And that worked for him.

The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

All great peoples are conservative.

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can’t put a dollar sign on.

If you want someone to say, ‚She’s so sweet, and she’s so cute, and, honey, point your foot,‘ that’s not my school. You can go to the YMCA and have a nobody teach your kid if that’s what you want to hear.

Everyone assumes I practise all of my own laws but I don’t. I think anybody who did would be a horrible ugly person to be around.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

A man’s true character comes out when he’s drunk.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

I think God gives every one of us our own will, and unfortunately, some people choose to do evil things with it.

In the game of cricket, a hero is a person who respects the game and does not corrupt the game. The one who doesn’t or corrupts the game, they are the villain. They should be punished, and they have been punished in the past.

This above all; to thine own self be true.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

My great-grandfather and his two brothers fought at Gettysburg. They were in artillery, and they survived the war, thank goodness. So I revere what they did. I think their motivations were honorable when they undertook the war and participated in it along with other Southerners.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

A faithful woman can become a devoted daughter of God – more concerned with being righteous than with being selfish, more anxious to exercise compassion than to exercise dominion, more committed to integrity than to notoriety. And she knows of her own infinite worth.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

Honoring the priesthood fosters respect, respect promotes reverence, and reverence invites revelation.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.

Don’t create more enemies than you take out by some immoral act.

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

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

To be ashamed of one’s immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one’s morality.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To life a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others. But that’s really the essence of the Christian faith.

Ethics and power are separate.

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

One thing about me is I try to be honest.

Judges should avoid commenting on a candidate for public office.

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

Persuasion is achieved by the speaker’s personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided.

To be is to do.

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.

Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it – not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.