ethics
“He prayeth best, who loveth best / All things both great and small.”
“The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.”
“The greatest of faults is to be conscious of none.”
“Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.”
“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”
“To see what is right and fail to act on it is want of courage.”
“We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice; we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.”
“Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.”
“Grub first, then ethics.”
“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.”
“The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.”
“He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.”
“One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.”
“To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.”
“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
“If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it.”
“The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be either good or evil.”
“Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.”
“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”