The dead linger sometimes.
Why should he watch the hideous corruption of his soul?
The picture, changed or unchanged, would be to him the visible emblem of conscience.
The sin we had done once, and with loathing, we would do many times, and with joy.
Besides, nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.
You never say a moral thing, and you never do a wrong thing.
He would never again tempt innocence. He would be good.
Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.
Good' did not triumph. 'Evil' did not triumph. The two resolved, destroyed each other and created new 'evils', new 'goods' which slew each other in their turn.
It is not only that sin consists in doing evil, but in not doing the good that we know.
The foundations of national morality must be laid in private families.
All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.
There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.
A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
Continued disobedience to conscience makes conscience blind.