e imparts a wondrous inspiration to its possessor.
It bears him on in security, either to meet no danger, or to find matter
of glorious trial.--_Milton._

Society is built upon trust, and trust upon confidence of one another's
integrity.--_South._

~Conscience.~--Conscience is not law; no, God and reason made the law, and
have placed conscience within you to determine.--_Sterne._

There are moments when the pale and modest star, kindled by God in
simple hearts, which men call conscience, illumines our path with truer
light than the flaming comet of genius on its magnificent
course.--_Mazzini._

No thralls like them that inward bondage have.--_Sir P. Sidney._

Some people have no perspective in their conscience. Their moral
convictions are the same on all subjects. They are like a reader who
speaks every word with equal emphasis.--_Beecher._

Conscience enables us not merely to learn the right by experiment and
induction, but intuitively and in advance of experiment; so, in addition
to the experimental way whereby we learn justice from the facts of human
history, we have a transcendental way, and learn it from the facts of
human nature, and from immediate consciousness.--_Theodore Parker._

A man's own conscience is his sole tribunal; and he should care no more
for that phantom "opinion" than he should fear meeting a ghost if he
cross the churchyard at dark.--_Lytton._

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to
prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.--_Goldsmith._

To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism: had we
never sinned we should have had no conscience.--_Carlyle._

The most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the
court of his own conscience.--_Beecher._

Conscience serves us especially to judge of the actions of others.--_J.
Petit Senn._

It is astonishing how soon the whole conscience begins to unravel if a
single stitch drops; one single sin indulged in makes a hole you could
put your head through.--_Charles Buxton._

A still small voice.--_Bible._

~Constancy.~--A good man it is not mine to see; could I see a man
possessed of constancy, that would satisfy me.--_Confucius._

Constancy is the chimera of love.--_Vauvenargues._

Constancy is the complement of all the other human virtues.--_Mazzini._

~Contempt.~--No sacred fane requires us to submit to contempt.--_Goethe._

There is not in human nature a more odious d