C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Whewell
Conscience is the reason employed about questions of right and wrong.
Every failure is a step to success; every detection of what is false directs us toward what is true; every trial exhausts some tempting form of error. Not only so, but scarcely any attempt is entirely a failure; scarcely any theory, the result of steady thought, is altogether false; no tempting form of error is without some latent charm derived from truth.
Every man has obligations which belong to his station. Duties extend beyond obligation, and direct the affections, desires and intentions as well as the actions.
Prudence supposes the value of the end to be assumed, and refers only to the adaptation of the means. It is the relation of right means for given ends.
Those who have obtained the farthest insight into Nature have been, in all ages, firm believers in God.