Quotes about Values
What a shame it is for a nation to be developing without a sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.
— Edith Wharton
She wanted, passionately and persistently, two things which she believed should subsist together in any well-ordered life: amusement and respectability.
— Edith Wharton
Brains & culture seem non-existent from one end of the social scale to the other, & half the morons yell for filth, & the other half continue to put pants on the piano-legs.
— Edith Wharton
What was left of the little world he had grown up in, and whose standards had bent and bound him?
— Edith Wharton
A frivolous society can acquire significance through what its frivolity destroys.
— Edith Wharton
where there is no sound reason, there can be no real virtue.
— Edmund Burke
No one cares about their reputation or their bank account when they find themselves in the shadow of death.
— Edward Welch
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been kindness, beauty, and truth.
— Albert Einstein
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.
— Albert Einstein
Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.
— Albert Schweitzer
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.
— Albert Schweitzer
Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a little learning will do, well-bread, chaste, and tender. As to religion, a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in God and hate a saint.
— Alexander Hamilton