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| Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922. |
| Morality |
| Kant, as we all know, compared moral law to the starry heavens, and found them both sublime. On the naturalistic hypothesis we should rather compare it to the protective blotches on a beetle’s back, and find them both ingenious. Arthur J. Balfour—Foundations of Belief. | 1 |
| No mere man since the Fall, is able in this life perfectly to keep the Commandments. Book of Common Prayer. Shorter Catechism. | 2 |
| Rough Johnson, the great moralist. Byron—Don Juan. Canto XIII. St. 7. | 3 |
| “Tut, tut, child,” said the Duchess. “Everything’s got a moral if only you can find it.” Lewis Carroll—Alice in Wonderland. Ch. VIII. | 4 |
| The Bearings of this observation lays in the application on it. Dickens—Dombey and Son. Ch. XXIII. | 5 |
| The moral system of the universe is like a document written in alternate ciphers, which change from line to line. Froude—Short Studies on Great Subjects. Calvinism. | 6 |
| Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties. Froude—Short Studies on Great Subjects. Divus Cæsar. | 7 |
| Dr. Johnson’s morality was as English an article as a beefsteak. Hawthorne—Our Old Home. Lichfield and Uttoxeter. | 8 |
| Turning the other cheek is a kind of moral jiu-jitsu. Gerald Stanley Lee—Crowds. Bk. IV. Ch. X. | 9 |
| Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning,—an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies. Longfellow—Kavanagh. Ch. XIII. | 10 |
| We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality. Macaulay—On Moore’s Life of Lord Byron. (1830). | 11 |
| I find the doctors and the sages Have differ’d in all climes and ages, And two in fifty scarce agree On what is pure morality. Moore—Morality. | 12 |
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