Absolute responsibility (n.) implies secrecy, against the common view that responsibility means accounting for oneself before others.
Accountability (n.) on a prodigious scale makes the yearly statement of accounts seem a jest — the merchant scanned the ledger knowing there was something quite different he ought to be scanning.
Accountability (n.) falls only on the weak and defeated.
Accountability (n.) implies someone to account to; we feel no guilt for breaking a law of physics.
Accountability (n.) before One greater than myself keeps my meanness in check.
Fault (n.) is the word used to condemn one who walked into a danger he could have avoided — "his own fault" — and it is precisely his eulogy.
A Fault (n.) should not make the beloved a stranger; the union should treat the weakness as the stranger, and the two draw closer to remove it.
A Fault (n.) would be senselessly laid on another for the fact that I get into a scrape.
A Fault (n.) we still commit cannot be corrected in a child; parents who swore to spare their children their own upbringing merely go to the opposite extreme — the strongest evidence that the old sin survives.
Financial responsibility (n.) is turning down brunch so often your friends stop asking.
Financial responsibility (n.) is easiest for people who never had to choose between rent and the dentist.
Financial responsibility (n.) is like flossing: everyone knows the method, the whole difficulty is doing it again tomorrow.
Financial responsibility (n.) is mostly the ability to be bored by your own money.