", adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency."

": It is sayd there be a raunge of mountaynes in the Easte, on one syde of the which certayn conducts are immorall, ye…"

", adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be genera…"

"Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books."

"Wisdom is purified by morality, and morality is purified by wisdom: where one is, the other is, the moral man has wis…"

"Tut, tut, child," said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral if only you can find it."

"There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of o…"

"To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision."

"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law."

"To us, most human morality is carefully thought-through self-congratulation."