Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud.
Conscience serves us especially to judge of the actions of others.
A pedant holds more to instruct us with what he knows, than of what we are ignorant.
It is easy to be virtuous in prospective.
The true worth of a soul is revealed as much by the motive it attributes to the actions of others as by its own deeds.
Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots.