"A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy"

"Conscience is a man's compass"

"He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast"

"So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone"

"Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter"

"Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also"

"Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass"

"It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great"

"The line that describes the beautiful is elliptical. It has simplicity and constant change. It cannot be described by a compass, and it changes direction at every one of its points"

"It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges"

"Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction"