Quotes about Integrity

Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill?Pay every debt, as if God wrote the bill.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

To live without duties is obscene.

Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

The borrowing is often honest enough, and comes of magnanimity and stoutness. A great man quotes bravely and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good.

In self-trust all the virtues are comprehended.

We must not tamper with the organic motion of the soul.

Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.

The reason why men do not obey us is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel.