“One fault begets another, one crime renders another necessary.”

Warning that wrongdoing can generate its own escalating chain of consequences · Prose, The Book of the Church, 1824

• Character
• Justice
• Morality

“It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.”

Turning a familiar warning about intentions into a defence of sincere moral purpose · Prose, Sir Thomas More; or, Colloquies, 1829

• Compassion
• Morality
• Wit

“Take away love, and not physical nature only, but the heart of the moral world, would be palsied.”

Presenting love as essential to both human feeling and moral life · Prose, The Doctor

• Humanity
• Love
• Morality