الضمير الحيّ للروح كالصحة للجسد؛ يحفظ فينا طمأنينةً دائمةً وصفاءً، ويعادل بل يفوق كلَّ ما قد ينزل بنا من نوائب وشدائد من الخارج.

“A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.”Joseph Addison — The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd (1856)