We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once. – Logan Pearsall Smith, “Age and Death,” Afterthoughts, 1931

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice. – Confucius

Little boldness is needed to assail the opinions and practices of notoriously wicked men; but to rebuke great and good men for their conduct, and to impeach their discernment, is the highest effort of moral courage. – William Lloyd Garrison