Morality is the attitude we adopt toward people whom we personally dislike.

The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning -- an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

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

There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.

For the ''superior morality,'' of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness to deny that this ''superior morality'' is properly rather an ''inferior criminality,'' produced not by greater love of Virtue, but by greater perfection of Police; and of that far subtler and stronger Police, called Public Opinion.

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.