Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.

There's a lot of reasons not to reinvent the wheel here.

There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct -- not more in ourselves, it seems, than in circumscribing events, which appear as if leagued together to allow no novelties in the way of amelioration.

Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.