A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.
Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Error always addresses the passions and prejudices; truth scorns such mean intrigue, and only addresses the understanding and the conscience.
I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
The play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
What are riches - grandeur - health itself, to the luxury of a pure conscience, the health of the soul; - and what the sufferings of poverty, disappointment, despair - to the anguish of an afflicted one!
Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinion of others.
Conscience does make cowards of us all, and thus the native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought.