In matters of conscience first thoughts are best; in matters of
prudence last thoughts are best--REV. ROBERT HALL.
A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart;
his next, to escape the censures of the world. If the last interferes
with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected; but otherwise
there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see
those approbations which it gives itself seconded by the applause of
the public.--ADDISON.
Conscience raises its voice in the breast of every man, a witness for
his Creator.
We should have all our communications with men, as in the presence of
God; and with God, as in the presence of men.--COLTON.
I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his
cardinals. I have within me the great pope, self.--LUTHER.
The most reckless sinner against his own conscience has always in the
background the consolation that he will go on in this course only this
time, or only so long, but that at such a time he will amend. We may
be assured that we do not stand clear with our own consciences so long
as we determine or project, or even hold it possible, at some future
time to alter our course of action.--FICHTE.
There is one court whose "findings" are incontrovertible, and whose
sessions are held in the chambers of our own breast.--HOSEA BALLOU.
Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.
--STERNE.
He that hath a blind conscience which sees nothing, a dead conscience
which feels nothing, and a dumb conscience which says nothing, is in
as miserable a condition as a man can be on this side of hell.
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