Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking. – Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking. – Henry Louis Mencken, “Sententiae,” This and That: A Mencken Chrestomathy, 1948

You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

If moral behavior were simply following rules, we could program a computer to be moral. – Samuel P. Ginder