Hope is a horrible thing, you know. I don't know who decided to package hope as a virtue because it's not. It's a plague. Hope is like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and somebody just keeps pulling it and pulling it.
Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
I was surrounded by art by virtue of not only the educational opportunities that my mother's foresight availed me to.
It is better to cherish virtue and humanity, by leaving much to free will, even with some loss of the object , than to attempt to make men mere machines and instruments of political benevolence. The world on the whole will gain by a liberty, without which virtue cannot exist.
The ages of greatest public spirit are not always eminent for private virtue.
Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
What, after all,is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.
A vice is merely a pleasure to which somebody has objected.
Fear is the virtue of slaves; but the heart that loveth is willing.
It is not always for virtue's sake that women are virtuous.
It requires greater virtues to support good fortune than bad.
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
Courage is the virtue of the free.
It were no virtue to bear calamities if we did not feel them.
Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag about.
The virtue lies in the struggle, not the prize.
The virtue involved in helping those one loves is not 'selflessness' or 'sacrifice,' but integrity.
Courage is a virtue only so far as it is directed by prudence.
Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself.