I could hardly sit through 'Frozen.' There was an attempt to craft a moral message and to build the story around that, instead of building the story and letting the moral message emerge. It was the subjugation of art to propaganda, in my estimation.

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.

It stands to reason that he who would cure a moral ailment must be practically acquainted with it in all its bearings.

If a man has committed wrong in life, I don't know any moralist more anxious to point his errors out to the world than his own relations...

The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.

It is one of the oldest maxims of moral prudence: Do not, by aspiring to what is impracticable, lose the opportunity of doing the good you can effect!

“My horror at his crimes was lost in my admiration at his skill.”

“I could not rest, Watson, I could not sit quiet in my chair, if I thought that such a man as Professor Moriarty were walking the streets of London unchallenged.”

“It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.”

“I wanted to end the world, but I'll settle for ending yours.”

“In reality it is far less prejudicial to witness the immorality of the great than to witness that immorality which leads to greatness.”

“Montaigne said long ago: "Were I not to follow the straight road for its straightness, I should follow it for having found by experience that in the end it is commonly the happiest and most useful track." The doctrine of interest rightly understood is not then new, but among the Americans of our time it finds universal acceptance; it has become popular there; you may trace it at the bottom of all their actions, you will remark it in all they say.”

“Do not attempt to hide things which cannot be hidden.”

“It is in this manner that the demand for men, like that for any other commodity, necessarily regulates the production of men; quickens it when it goes on too slowly, and stops it when it advances too fast.”

“Two different sets of philosophers have attempted to teach us this hardest of all the lessons of morality. One set have laboured to increase our sensibility to the interests of others; another, to diminish that to our own. The first would have us feel for others as we naturally feel for ourselves. The second would have us feel for ourselves, as we naturally feel for others.”

“This disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor and mean condition, though necessary both to establish and to maintain the distinction of ranks and the order of society, is, at the same time, the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments.”

“In the common degree of the moral, there is no virtue. Virtue is excellence.”

“The profligacy of a man of fashion is looked upon with much less contempt and aversion, than that of a man of meaner condition.”

“The prudent man always studies seriously and earnestly to understand whatever he professes to understand, and not merely to persuade other people that he understands it; and though his talents may not always be very brilliant, they are always perfectly genuine”

“The man who indulges us in this natural passion, who invites us into his heart, who, as it were, sets open the gates of his breast to us, seems to exercise a species of hospitality more delightful than any other. No man, who is in ordinary good temper, can fail of pleasing, if he has the courage to utter his real sentiments as he feels them, and because he feels them.”

There is zero, and there is eternity, and there is mortality, but there is no ultimate.

I can retain neither respect nor affection for government which has been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend its immorality