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 we are ever in doubt what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done. – John Lubbock, “The Happiness of Duty,” 1887
He put a ring in the toe of a stocking. On Christmas Eve, we opened our stockings and it was there at the bottom of the toe. Then he got down on his knees and he was shaking. – Kyra Sedgwick