Conscience and Character
"There is a higher law than the constitution."—Seward.
"Whatever creed be taught, or land be trod,
Man's conscience is the oracle of God."
—Byron.
"Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience."—Washington.
"Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything."—Sterne.
"If you can find a place between the throne of God and the dust to which man's body crumbles, where the fatal responsibilities of law do not weigh upon him, I will find a vacuum in nature. They press upon him from God out of eternity and from the earth out of nature, and from every department of life, as constant and all-surrounding as the pressure of the air."—Beecher.