Conduct

Famous quotes containing the word conduct:

“What man who carries a heavenly soul in him, has not groaned to perceive, that unless he committed a sort of suicide as to the practical things of this world, he never can hope to regulate his earthly conduct by that same heavenly soul?”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“Like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point in which her own conduct would ill bear examination.”
—Jane Austen (1775–1817)

“My belief is that no being and no society composed of human beings ever did, or ever will, come to much unless their conduct was governed and guided by the love of some ethical ideal.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)