Orison Swett Marden Quotes

... No one "gets away" with evil. Judgment always comes, only the timing is uncertain.

Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.

To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness.

The man who was excellent, I rewarded him well; who was evil, I punished him well.

Who doth right deeds Is twice born, and who doeth ill deeds vile.

Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts: but who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do?

Even the wicked get worse than they deserve.

To a well deserving person God will show favor. To an ill deserving person He will simply be just.

Sin makes its own hell, and goodness its own heaven.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

They do injury to the good who spares the bad.

Virtue is its own reward. We only invented concepts like heaven and hell to describe how we feel. We don't feel good doing bad and it's nice to help someone.

As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this.

Approval or blame will follow in the world to come.

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

If you do right, everything will come out right.

He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.

It is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good people getting their deserts.

Law is not self-executing. Unfortunately, at times its execution rests in the hands of those who are faithless to it. And even when its enforcement is committed to those who revere it, law merely deters some human beings from offending, and punishes other human beings for offending. This does not make men good. This task can be performed only by ethics or religion or morality.

When you're talking about villainy, then you're automatically circling around to talk about justice.

Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.

Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.

If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues?

All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.