“I merely contend that science is apt to be cold-hearted, and does not seem always to take into consideration the tortures she inflicts in her search for knowledge.”

Calling for compassion to accompany scientific inquiry, particularly where living creatures suffer · Essay, The Cruelty of Science, in Ponkapog Papers (1903)

• Compassion
• Knowledge
• Morality

“Personally, I believe that the possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it.”

Challenging easy moralising about wealth by drawing attention to the destructive effects of poverty · Essay collection, Ponkapog Papers (1903)

• Morality
• Society
• Suffering

“For myself, I am no moralist: I consider that if you do what you want you must take what you get for it and that if you deny yourself things you will be better off than if you don’t.”

A compact statement of personal responsibility and self-restraint · The English Novel

• Character
• Morality
• Wisdom

“There is something very beautiful in this cutting and covenant: first the commandments into tablets, then the laws into your palm, and finally the covenant deep into your heart.”

Original: Y mae rhywbeth yn brydferth iawn yn y torri a'r cymodi yma. Torri'r gorchmynion ar lechau i ddechreu, torri'r deddfau ar dor dy law yn nês ymlaen; torri'r cytundeb i ddyfnder dy galon yn y diwedd. — Tracing moral commitment from outward inscription towards inward conviction · Sermon, Cyfamod Duw a Dyn (Welsh)

• Faith
• Morality
• Truth

“No, no, the religion of Christ does not permit waste and extravagance.”

Original: Na, na, nid yw crefydd Crist yn caniatau sarnu ac afradu! — Rejecting wastefulness as incompatible with Christian responsibility · Sermon, Saboth gyda'r Iesu, August 1900 (Welsh)

• Faith
• Morality

“It is not right because He gave it to us; He gave it to us because it is right.”

Original: Dyw hi ddim yn iawn am ei fod Ef wedi ei rhoi i ni, ond y mae Ef wedi ei rhoi i ni am ei bod yn iawn. — Placing moral truth before mere obedience to authority · Sermon, Ceisio Teyrnas Dduw, July 1886 (Welsh)

• Faith
• Morality
• Truth

“The very fact that the All good should have permitted such an intellect to fall into confusion, proves how little we ought to value ourselves on intellectual endowments, apart from our moral use of them.”

Placing moral use above intellectual brilliance as the true measure of worth · Letter to Mrs Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 6 November 1836

• Morality
• Truth

“I have a horror of debt, because I have observed that a man who does contract it becomes a rascal.”

A candid, self-aware note on money and moral drift · Journal (Detached Thoughts, 1821)

• Morality
• Truth