duty

Inasmuch as the domestic household is antecedent, as well as in idea as in fact, the family must necessarily have rights and duties which are prior than those of the Community and founded more immediately in nature.

There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.

It is our duty  as men and women  to behave as though limits to our ability do not exist. We are collaborators in creation of the Universe.

Christianity knows no truth which is not the child of love and the parent of duty.

Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God's children.

Since we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our minds, our one duty is to furnish it well.

The first duty of love is to listen.

Faithfulness in the performance of small duties gives us strength to adhere to difficult determinations that life will someday force us to make.

If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's coversation.

The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to be all one.