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A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

The real test of a person’s character is not in what they do in the spotlight, but in what they do when no one is watching.

What we call “morals” is simply blind obedience to words of command.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.