Sometimes, to do the right thing, we must keep a promise we never made. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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

There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thought under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life. – Michel de Montaigne, Essays, 1595

Let me be thankful first, because I never was robbed before; second, because although they took my purse, they did not take my life; third, although they took my all, it was not much; and fourthly, because it was I who was robbed, and not I who robbed. – Matthew Henry (1662–1714)