Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. – Aristotle

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

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

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