Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
It is all a mistake that we cannot be good and manly without being scrupulously and studiously good. There is too much mechanism about our virtue.
A man hasn't got a corner on virtue just because his shoes are shined.
I could live a better life if I had a better mind and a better body
In order to be effective you need not only virtue but also mental strength.
Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
Let frugality and industry be our virtues.
It depends on education--that holder of the keys which the Almighty hath put into our hands--to open the gates which lead to virtue or to vice, to happiness or misery.
Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
Virtue hath no virtue if it be not impugned; then appeareth how great it is, of what value and power it is, when by patience it approveth what it works.
The Great Man. . . is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,' and altogether everything that is the 'virtue of the herd. ' If he cannot lead, he goes alone. . . He knows he is incommunicable: he finds it tasteless to be familiar. . . When not speaking to himself, he wears a mask. There is a solitude within him that is inaccessible to praise or blame.
Of all the rewards of virtue,. . . the most splendid is fame, for it is fame alone that can offer us the memory of posterity.
All the devils respect virtue.
Only wisdom and virtue can truly win men's devotion.
I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.
Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes through public service. The one is incomplete without the other. Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless.
It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.
Virtue has her heroes too As well as Fame and Fortune.
There are no temptations from which assailed virtue may not gain strength, instead of falling before them, vanquished and subdued.
Faith is the foundation upon which a godlike character is built. It is a prerequisite for all other virtues.