There is no future pang
Can deal that justice on the self condemn'd
He deals on his own soul.
Character Quotes
Anyone else on this page has about a third as many entries as Shakespeare. Next come Pope, Milton, James Russell Lowell and Goethe. The sentence worth reading in context is Emerson’s, from The American Scholar (1837): character is higher than intellect, and a great soul will be strong to live as well as strong to think.
Shaw, in Man and Superman (1903), is here for a remark about marriage and morality, which shows how loosely the page’s topic is applied.
Three entries are flagged. Two sayings credited to the Roman mime-writer Publilius Syrus, one about character deciding every man’s fortune and one about doing nothing at once both hastily and prudently, are disputed. A passage credited to Joseph Addison, about imperfection being what complains of the imperfect, is marked misattributed.
Be fearful only of thyself, and stand in awe of none more than thine own conscience.
We never do evil so effectually as when we are led to do it by a false principle of conscience.
The consciousness of duty performed gives us music at midnight.
Knowledge is the hill which few may hope to climb;
Duty is the path that all may tread.
I find the doing of the will of God, leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.
Every man obeys Christ as he prizes Christ, and no otherwise.