Moral Interest

Famous quotes containing the words moral and/or interest:

    “The whole body of what is now called moral or ethical truth existed in the golden age as abstract science. Or, if we prefer, we may say that the laws of Nature are the purest morality.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Society has really no graver interest than the well-being of the literary class.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)