A good conscience is a continual feast.

To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.

Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long.

Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.

A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.

The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.

A good conscience is a continual feast.

Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.

A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.

What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; love's the cloudless summer sun, nature gay adorning.

No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.

A quiet mind cureth all.

Idleness is an appendix to nobility.

We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.

Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards.

One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.

Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.

Diseases crucify the soul of man attenuate our bodies dry them wither them rivel them up like old apples make them as so many Anatomies.

Penny wise pound foolish.

Conscience is a great ledger book in which all our offences are written and registered and which time reveals to the sense and feeling of the offender.

Birds of a feather, flock together.

The miller sees not all the water that flows by his mill.

Restore a man to his health, his purse lies open to thee.

Temperance is a bridle of gold; he who uses it rightly, is more like a god than a man.

Tobacco, divine, rare superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all panaceas, potable gold and philosopher's stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases.

Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

I think that if there are positions that you can't argue... then the responsibility is probably to resign. If one's own conscience is opposed to the requirements and responsibilities of the job, then it's time to leave the job.

We cannot appeal to the conscience of the world when our own conscience is asleep.

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.

We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures.

Maybe I'll learn how, but the only thing I can do is turn down parts that would hurt my conscience.

One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.

When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.

It wouldn't sit easily on one's conscience that you had been warned and there could be danger, but nevertheless you went ahead and said let's dispense these drugs.

Claiming for ourselves liberty of conscience, liberty to worship, we shall see to it that every other individual enjoys the same right.

There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.

Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.

It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.

A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.

One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

Living with a conscience is like driving with the brakes on.

No, moral conscience is one thing, the law is another. We have to hold onto this difference.