“To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.”
“The right thing to do and the hard thing to do are usually the same.”
“Aye, it would've been the right thing t' do, but we're all of us made of the same stuff, miss, sinners before God, an' none o' us do the right thing all the time.”
“You do realize it's all right to have nice things sometimes, right?”
“You not only have to do the right thing. You have to look like you're doing the right thing.”
“It was a good thing to do—to ask her to help you,” Ted offered.“Yes, but was it the right thing?” Ted had many times in the past reminded Dixon that doing a good thing wasn’t the same as doing the right thing.”