Modesty isn't always a virtue; it can be a hindrance; a careful measure of personal pride builds confidence and ensures success.
To know your faults and be able to change is the greatest virtue.
God sure esteems the growth and completing of one virtuous person, more that the restraint of ten vicious.
Virtues, of. . . Justice: Wrong none by doing injuries or omitting the benefits that are your duty.
Virtue alone is the unerring sign of a noble soul.
Pastor: One employed by the wicked to prove to them by his example that virtue doesn't pay.
Without virtue, happiness cannot be.
I am no herald to inquire into men's pedigree; it sufficeth me if I know their virtues.
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
One who has accumulated virtue will certainly also possess eloquence; but he who has eloquence doe not necessarily possess virtue.
For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
The most eminent virtue is doing simply what we have to do.
It is a virtue and a prize to listen patiently to and put up with insults for the sake of God
So may the outward shows be least themselves: The world is still deceived with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being seasoned with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament? There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
Kindness isn't just a virtue, its a necessity.
We endeavor to make a virtue of the faults we are unwilling to correct.
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.