The great secret of morals is love.

"It is written, better to be a fool all your days than for one hour to be evil. You are not a fool. They are the fools. For he who causes his neighbor to feel shame loses Paradise himself."

We must never delude ourselves into thinking that physical power is a substitute for moral power, which is the true sign of national greatness.

To make our morality centre on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow-men a secret element of gusto.

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it, they are wrong.

Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.

It is not best that we use our morals week days; it gets them out of repair for Sundays.

Morals are an acquirement-like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis-no man is born with them.

Our errors and our controversies, in the sphere of morality, arise sometimes from looking on men as though they could be altogether bad, or altogether good.

All sects differ, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.