Duty
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Both love of mankind, and respect for their rights are duties; the former however is only a conditional, the latter an unconditional, purely imperative duty, which he must be perfectly certain not to have transgressed who would give himself up to the secret emotions arising from benevolence
Be not diverted from your duty by any idle reflections the silly world may make upon you, for their censures are not in your power, and consequently should not be any part of your concern
Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers
Man is saved by love and duty, and by the hope that springs from duty, or rather from the moral facts of consciousness, as a flower springs from the soil
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty
It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins
Without duty, life is soft and boneless; it cannot hold itself together
Men must be either the slaves of duty, or the slaves of force
Let men of all ranks, whether they are successful or unsuccessful, whether they triumph or not - let them do their duty, and rest satisfied
A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations
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