Echoes

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

Wealth and honor are what every man desires. But if they have been obtained in violation of moral principles, they must not be kept.

To be popular is easy; to be right when right is unpopular, is noble... I repudiate with scorn the immoral doctrine, 'Our country, right or wrong'.

Virtue is the root; wealth is the result.

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.

The many are mean; only the few are noble.

Virtue is serious business; everything else is farce.

In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair.

If you live according to nature, you will never be poor; if you live according to opinion, you will never be rich.

The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property.

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing.

Go forth in virtue!

He is truly great that is great in charity. He is truly great that is little in himself, and maketh no account of any height of honor. And he is truly learned that doeth the will of God, and forsaketh his own will.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Ten thousand do not turn the scale against a single man of worth.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.

Moral excellence is an ornament for personal beauty; righteous conduct, for high birth; success, for learning; and proper spending, for wealth.

Faith is the best wealth for a man in this world. Righteousness when well practised brings happiness. Truth is the sweetest of flavours. They say the life of one living by wisdom is the best.

Plato is my friend — Aristotle is my friend — but truth is a greater friend.