Just as the apparent openness of rectitude will have its hidden places where foul things moulder in the dark, so, in the… — William McIlvanney Copy Share Image
To have done no man a wrong...to walk and live, unseduced, within arm's length of what is not your own, with nothing… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
How dare you, unless you can hold up your own life as a model of rectitude, achievement, and halcyon happiness, open your… — Celestine Sibley Copy Share Image
Even in the fiercest uproar of our stormy passions, conscience, though in her softest whispers, gives to the supremacy of rectitude the… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
To speak in literature with the perfect rectitude and insouciance of the movements of animals and the unimpeachable of the sentiment of… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
What acquaintance have the people at large with the arena of political rectitude, with the connections of kingdoms, the resources of national… — Charles James Fox Copy Share Image
O may I join the choir invisible of those immortal dead who live again in minds made better by their presence; live… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Permit me then to recommend from the sincerity of my heart, ready at all times to bleed in my country's cause, a… — Nathanael Greene Copy Share Image
Just as animal research tells us that gluttony and sloth are side effects of a drive to accumulate body fat, it also… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
Fight for the value of your person. Fight for the virtue of your pride. Fight for the essence of that which is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Do you know this Sanskrit Shloka: "Let those who are versed in the ethical codes praise or blame, let Lakshmi, the goddess… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Anyone who has undergone home repair lately knows that your everyday artisan uses language so loosely and makes false promises so glibly… — Mary McGrory Copy Share Image
Never lose your self-respect, nor be too familiar with yourself when you are alone. Let your integrity itself be your own standard… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Where are they now that we, the men whom they sent off to war, have returned? These are commanders who have deserted… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The crown and glory of life is character. It is the noblest possession of a man, constituting a rank in itself, and… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
No man with a genius for legislation has appeared in America. They are rare in the history of the world. There are… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
By the laws of rectitude accused Persons, however atrocious their offences, are allowed to make their defence, and by a verdict of… — Judith Sargent Murray Copy Share Image
There is no peace and no rest in the development of material interests. They have their law, and their justice. But it… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image