Izaak Walton Quotes

A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.

A man must not be without shame, for the shame of being without shame is shamelessness indeed.

The great theatre for virtue is conscience.

Be more careful of your conscience than of your estate. The latter can be bought and sold; the former never.

Virtue is health, vice is sickness.

For me, the only sources of moral values are the pursuit of understanding and the pursuit of happiness.

There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.

When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion.

I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul.

Conscience? Great souls do not worry themselves with such little details

I think that it's just about balance, keeping myself centered, and being happy and healthy.

The religious man fears, the man of honor scorns, to do an ill action.

Our selfishness is so robust and many-clutching that, well encouraged, it easily devours all sustenance away from our poor little scruples.

There is no wrong time to do the right thing.

Virtue is to the soul what health is tot he body.

I'm no saint but I do believe in what is right.

A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.

A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart; his next, to escape the censures of the world: if the last interferes with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected; but otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see those approbations which it gives itself seconded by the applauses of the public.

Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

It is not human to be without shame and without desire.

Conscience is the root of all true courage.

There is only one good. And that is to act according to the dictates of one's conscience.

It is always so much easier to be moral than it is to be spiritual.

Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.