I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me.

Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.

Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body.

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.

A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript.

It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we do.

I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me.

To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude.

A Woman is naturally more helpless than the other Sex; and a Man of Honour and Sense should have this in his View in all Manner of Commerce with her.

The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.

The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.

I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him.

A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband.

There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy.

When a man has no design but to speak plain truth he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass.

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction compared to the tongue of a Gossip.

A true and genuine impudence is ever the effect of ignorance without the least sense of it.

The person whom you favoured with a loan, if he be a good man, will think himself in your debt after he has paid you.

It is a very melancholy reflection that men are usually so weak that it is absolutely necessary for them to know sorrow and pain to be in their right senses.

Modesty never rages, never murmurs, never pouts; when it is ill-treated, it pines, it beseeches, it languishes.

Simplicity of all things is the hardest to be copy.

Violins are the lively, forward, importunate wits, that distinguish themselves by the flourishes of imagination, sharpness of repartee, glances of satire, and bear away the upper part in every consort.

A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.

I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.

I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality.

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing.

Fear is the mother of morality.

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.

Morality will perform all this; and Morality is the fruit of Illumination.

There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; and the others are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevation; which often cry down works, and men's own righteousness, and.

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.

Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.

The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?

The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children.

I just think people should find the music that helps them through the day and enjoy that. I've never felt like, if somebody does or doesn't like what I'm doing, it's a morality issue.

I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?

It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality.

To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.

The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.

Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.