Character is doing the right thing even when it costs more than you want to pay. – Michael Josephson, whatwillmatter.com

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

[See also] You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. – Malcolm S. Forbes, c.1972

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