The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other and are wandering alone. Thus some scientists care for truth; and their truth is pitiless. Thus some humanitarians only care for pity; and their pity (I am sorry to say) is often untruthful.
Where the vivacity of the intellect and the strength of the passions exceed the development of the moral faculties the character is likely to be embittered or corrupted by extremes, either of adversity or prosperity.
I hate when vice can bolt her arguments, And virtue has no tongue to check her pride.
Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue.
Somehow strangely the vice of men gets well represented and protected but their virtue has none to plead its cause - nor any charter of immunities and rights.
Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent are punished and the wicked escape.]
I thought about societies where exceptional fortunes are built up in industries with very little connection to out sincere and significant needs, industries where it is difficult to escape from the disparity between a seriousness of means and a triviality of ends.
One gets a cross for his crime, the other a crown.
Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power without conscience.
There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.
Those fellows, they're always crying over killers. Never a thought for the victims.
Injustice upon earth renders the justice of of heaven impossible.
Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.
It didn’t make any more sense to me then than it does now, how life can pile troubles up on a man what don’t deserve them, while letting some of the biggest jackasses and scoundrels alive waltz their way through long, untroubled existences.
