William Wordsworth Quotes on Ethics
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Rapine, avarice, expense This is idolatry; and these we adore: Plain living and high thinking are no more: The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws.
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Thought and theory must precede all action that moves to salutary purposes. Yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
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A light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove.
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Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore Of nicely calculated less or more.
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In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.