By a lie a man throws away and, as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.

Beneficence is a duty. He who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized, at length comes really to love him to whom he has done good…

Do what is right, though the world may perish.

Apart from moral conduct, all that man thinks himself able to do in order to become acceptable to God is mere superstition and religious folly.

The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.

[An attorney] can find it consistent with his dignity to turn wrong into right, and right into wrong, to abet a lie, nay to create, disseminate, and with all t…

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.