Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better.

It is curious - curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare

Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.

Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.