Merit and good works is the end of man's motion, and conscience of the same is the accomplishment of man's rest.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Essays, no.11,'Of Great Place'.

In myconscience I believethe baggage lovesme, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.

-Congreve,William
  Bellemore to Sharper. The Old Bachelor, act1, sc.3.

He was killed by theusual cabal: by himself, first of all; by the womanhe knew; by the womanhe did not know; by the man who granted his inmost wish; and by the inevitable fifth, who was keeper of his conscience and keeper of the stone.

-Davies, Robertson
  Fifth Business, pt.6, ch.8.

A good eater must be a good man; fora good eater must have a good digestion, and a good digestion depends upon a good conscience.

-Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
TheYoung Duke, bk.1, ch.14.

He that purchases a manor will think to have an exact survey of the land, but who thinks of taking so exact a survey of his conscience, how that money was got that purchased that manor? We call that a man's means, which he hath; but that is truly his means, what way he came by it.

-Donne,John
  Sermon preached at the funeral of Sir  William Cockayne, 12 Dec.

My wealth is health and perfect ease; My conscience clear my chief defence; I neither seek by bribes to please, Nor by deceit to breed offence. Thus do I live; thus will I die. Would all did so well as I!

-Dyer, Sir Edward
  'In Praise of a Contented Mind'.

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

-Goldsmith, Oliver
  The Vicar of  Wakefield, ch.13.

Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.

-Hawthorne, Nathaniel
  The Marble Faun, ch.4.

When I landed in the republic of conscience it was so noiseless when the engines stopped I could hear a curlew high above the runway.

-Heaney, SeamusJustin
  The Haw Lantern,'From the Republic of Conscience', pt.1, stanza1.

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions, even though I long ago cameto the conclusion that I was not a political person and could have no comfortable place in any political group.

-Hellman, Lillian Florence
  Letter to  John S  Wood,19 May, on being asked to give information for the McCarthy trials. Collected in US Congress Committee Hearing on Un- American  Activities (1952), pt.8.

There are only two things worth aiming for: good music and a clean conscience.

-Hindemith, Paul
  Letter to Willy Strecker.

Conscience de¤  chire¤  e entra|"ne vie de¤  cousue. A torn conscience brings about a disconnected life.

-Hugo,Victor Marie
  Les Mise¤  rables, vol.2, bk.1, ch.16.

People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there.You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.

-James, Henry
  Nanda Brookenham. The Awkward  Age, bk.6, ch.3.

The command 'Thou shalt not kill'must be binding on the conscience of humanity if the terrible tragedy and destiny of Cain is not to be repeated.

-PopeJohn Paul II originally Karol Jozef Wojtyla
  Speech at Drogheda, Ireland, 29 Sep.

Ay, a plague on't, My conscience fools my wit!

-Jonson, Ben
  Volpone, act 2, sc.7.

Gloria boni hominis, testimonium bon× conscienti×. The testimony of a good conscience is the good man's glory.

-Kempis, StThomas a'
c.1413  De Imitatione Christi, bk.2, ch.6, section1.

The church must be reminded that it is not the master or servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state.

-King, Martin LutherJr
  Strength to Love.

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

-Lee, (Nelle) Harper
   Atticus Finch. To Kill  A Mockingbird, pt.1, ch.11.

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe.

-Luther, Martin
  Speech in defence of his doctrines at the Diet of  Worms, 18  Apr.

Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, or should or could be the global gendarme.

-McNamara, Robert Strange
  Speech to US newspaper editors. Reported in the NewYork Times,19 May.