"A good conscience is a continual Christmas." - Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac

"A good conscience is a continual feast." - ROBERT BURTON, The Anatomy of Melancholy

"Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it." - SAMUEL BUTLER (d 1902), Note-Books

"There is one thing alone
that stands the brunt of life throughout its course:
a quiet conscience."
- EURIPIDES, Hippolytus

"Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse." - OLIVER GOLDSMITH, The Vicar of Wakefield

"I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions." - LILLIAN HELLMAN, letter (1952)

"Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking." - H.L. MENCKEN, A Little Book in C Major

"There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball,
And that is to have either a clear conscience, or none at all."
- OGDEN NASH, Interoffice Memorandum

"Don't you see that that blessed conscience of yours is nothing but other people inside you?" - LUIGI PIRANDELLO, Each in His Own Way

"Conscience is but a word that cowards use,
Devised at first to keep the strong in awe."
- SHAKESPEARE, Richard III

"Thus conscience does makes cowards of us all." - SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet

"I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts!" - Calvin in Bill Watterson's 'Calvin & Hobbes' comic strip, after having snuk up on Hobbes

"Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience." - Washington, George