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It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality.

It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge.

We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients that are indispensable to making a better world. In a life of learning that is, perhaps, the greatest lesson of all.

Good morals lead to good laws.

Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture.

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

I don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else's.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.

The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.