E. W. Howe Quotes

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.

The greatest want of the world is the want of men - men who will not be bought or sold; men who in their inmost souls are true and honest; men who do not fear to call sin by its right name; men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole; men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.

The just man walks in his integrity

Virtue is the same for women and men alike.

He was as great as a man can be without morality

Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.

Virtue is an inner strength. It expands your nature.

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

Character is that quality of mind which makes truth-telling instinctive rather than strange.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

I don't think lying has any ultimate justification. I don't think it ever leads to anything positive. The good fight to have is not to lie. That's one of the challenges in a way.

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.

Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.

Virtue is the truest nobility.

Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying your moral is not the same as acting morally.

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

We are men of action, lies do not become us.

Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.

The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying.

A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal

He who does not need to lie is proud of not being a liar.