For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous.
The end of all knowledge should be in virtuous action.
There are some jobs in which it is impossible for a man to be virtuous.
There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
We, as Americans, have won the lottery of life and the distinction between us and people living in Kalighat is not that we are smarter, not that we're harder working, not that we're more virtuous - it's that we're luckier.
As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.
The English Writers of Tragedy are possessed with a Notion, that when they represent a virtuous or innocent Person in Distress, they ought not to leave him till they have delivered him out of his Troubles, or made him triumph over his Enemies.
The sound and proper exercise of the imagination may be made to contribute to the cultivation of all that is virtuous and estimable in the human character.
To be a virtuous person is to display, by acts of will, all or at least most of the six ubiquitous virtues: wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, temperance, and transcendence.
The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
And rest, that strengthens unto virtuous deeds, Is one with Prayer.
Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous.
Progress changes consciousness, and when people's consciousness changes, then their awareness of what is possible changes as well - a virtuous circle.
Obstacles may retard, but they cannot long prevent the progress of a movement sanctified by its justice, and sustained by a virtuous people.
If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good.
When I say that children should be told about sex, I do not mean that they should be told only the bare physiological facts; they should be told whatever they wish to know. There should be no attempt to represent adults as more virtuous than they are, or sex as occurring only in marriage. There is no excuse for deceiving children. And when, as must happen in conventional families, they find that their parents have lied, they lose confidence in them, and feel justified in lying to them.
Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.
There is no jewel in the world so valuable as a chaste and virtuous woman.
People seem to think there is something inherently noble and virtuous in the desire to go for a walk.
Keep your analysis pure and virtuous.