PROBITY The quality of having strong moral principles, honesty and decency

“It required a rare decision to refuse all the accustomed paths and keep his solitary freedom at the cost of disappointing the natural expectations of his family and friends: all the more difficult that he had a perfect probity, was exact in securing his own independence, and holding every man to the like duty.”

-Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1862

Eulogy of Henry David Thoreau