Moral Interest

Famous quotes containing the words moral and/or interest:

    One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.
    —G.C. (Georg Christoph)

    I should consider it a greater success to interest one wise and earnest soul, than a million unwise and frivolous.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)