Integrity is praised and then left out in the cold.
There is a holy mistaken zeal in politics as well as religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.
The lives of the best of us are spent in choosing between evils.
How much easier is it to be generous than just.
It is a maxim received in life that, in general, we can determine more wisely for others than for ourselves. The reason of it is so dear in argument that it hardly wants the confirmation of experience.
The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.