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| To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it. | | Benjamin Franklin | | |
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| To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine. | | Ralph Waldo Emerson | | |
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| Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great. | | Ralph Waldo Emerson | | |
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| Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived. | | Oscar Wilde | | |
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| Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived. | | Oscar Wilde | | |
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| Tsze-Kung asked, saying, 'Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life?" The Master said, "Is not Reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others." | | Confucius | | |
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| Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated. | | Friedrich Nietzsche | | |
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| Vile deeds like poison weeds bloom well in prison air, it is only what is good in man, that wastes and withers there. | | Oscar Wilde | | |
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| Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue. | | Confucius | | |
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| Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. | | Confucius | | |
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| We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. | | Oscar Wilde | | |
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| We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. | | Oscar Wilde | | |
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| We are students of words; we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing | | Ralph Waldo Emerson | | |
