A good conscience is a continual Christmas.—­Franklin.

Be mine that silent calm repast,
A conscience cheerful to the last: 
That tree which bears immortal fruit,
Without a canker at the root;
That friend which never fails the just,
When other friends desert their trust. 

                                    —­Dr. Cotton.

No man ever offended his own conscience, but first or last it was revenged upon him for it.—­South.

He that loses his conscience has nothing left that is worth keeping.  Therefore be sure you look to that, and in the next place look to your health; and if you have it praise God and value it next to a good conscience.—­Izaak Walton.

Our secret thoughts are rarely heard except in secret.  No man knows what conscience is until he understands what solitude can teach him concerning it.—­Joseph Cook.

A man never outlives his conscience, and that, for this cause only, he cannot outlive himself.—­South.

Rules of society are nothing, one’s conscience is the umpire.—­Madame DUDEVANT.

A man, so to speak, who is not able to bow to his own conscience every morning is hardly in a condition to respectfully salute the world at any other time of the day.—­Douglas Jerrold.

In matters of conscience first thoughts are best; in matters of prudence last thoughts are best—­Rev.  Robert Hall.

A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart; his next, to escape the censures of the world.  If the last interferes with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected; but otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see those approbations which it gives itself seconded by the applause of the public.—­Addison.

Conscience raises its voice in the breast of every man, a witness for his Creator.

We should have all our communications with men, as in the presence of God; and with God, as in the presence of men.—­Colton.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals.  I have within me the great pope, self.—­Luther.

The most reckless sinner against his own conscience has always in the background the consolation that he will go on in this course only this time, or only so long, but that at such a time he will amend.  We may be assured that we do not stand clear with our own consciences so long as we determine or project, or even hold it possible, at some future time to alter our course of action.—­Fichte.

There is one court whose “findings” are incontrovertible, and whose sessions are held in the chambers of our own breast.—­Hosea Ballou.

Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.  —­Sterne.