Moral Interest

Famous quotes containing the words moral and/or interest:

    On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one’s mind. It becomes a pleasure.
    Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    Just as the French of the nineteenth century invested their surplus capital in a railway-system in the belief that they would make money by it in this life, in the thirteenth they trusted their money to the Queen of Heaven because of their belief in her power to repay it with interest in the life to come.
    Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)