Those who do it always would as soon think of being conceited of eating
their dinner as of doing their duty. What honest boy would pride himself
on not picking a pocket? A thief who was trying to reform
would.--_George MacDonald._
To what gulfs a single deviation from the track of human duties
leads!--_Byron._
The duty of man is not a wilderness of turnpike gates, through which he
is to pass by tickets from one to the other. It is plain and simple, and
consists but of two points: his duty to God, which every man must feel;
and, with respect to his neighbor, to do as he would be done
by.--_Thomas Paine._