Morality Quote by Bret Harte

“He saw nothing but misfortune--human error and misfortune. It brought him the most peace to simply believe that people were imperfect, and life was…

— Kaya McLaren

“It seemed to Jack that if an ordinary human being, his own son, no one particular, could have this purity of mind, then perhaps…

— Sebastian Faulks

“For the first time in his life he knew the bitterest sort of misfortune, misfortune beyond remedy, misfortune his own fault.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“As those who have learned to rule their own mind will attest, misfortune is a state of mind long before it becomes a miserable…

— Guy Finley

“He was poor and foolish and people will always have a place in their hearts for the harmless.”

— Tim Winton

“Too high for common selfishness, he could At times resign his own for others’ good, But not in pity, not because he ought, But…

— Lord Byron

“The trouble, in fact, is a difficult one to deal with, since it is inflamed alike by sympathy and by lack of sympathy. The…

— Bertrand Russell

“His nature was not a suspicious one, and he did not take pleasure, as some men did, in believing himself to have been betrayed.”

— Eleanor Catton

“Was he the epitome of virtue because he was poor? How had it been in the village? There was foul gossip and cussedness anywhere…

— F. Sionil José

“Deception to a noble end, though regrettable, was sometimes necessary for a greater good. Lying for selfish reasons was the fertile dirt of immorality,…

— Terry Goodkind

“Events in his own past he never thought of as evil but rather as mistaken, immensely regrettable, brought about by fear and greed.”

— Barbara Vine

“Rather, he found himself enchanted with examples of simple human error, mundane malfunctions and mechanical glitches. The sheer variety of things that could and…

— Wendy Brenner