Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.
Conscience Quotes
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!
Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a “necessary evil,” it begins to look more and more necessary and less and less evil.
To endeavor to domineer over conscience, is to invade the citadel of heaven.
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year’s fashions.
Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience.
The teachings of your parents may not keep alive your New England conscience; but if you sit on a straight-back chair and repeat the words “prisms and pilgrims” forty times the devil will flee from you.
If, when you look into your own heart, you find nothing wrong there, what is there to fear?
I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can’t fail if you do that.
