Quotes: Virtue

Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

My purpose is to inspire people of all walks of life to discover the virtue inherent within them and to bring forth that virtue in their daily lives.

I returned to Jerusalem, and it is by virtue of Jerusalem that I have written all that God has put into my heart and into my pen.

We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Patience, the beggar’s virtue, shall find no harbor here.

Confidentiality is a virtue of the loyal, as loyalty is the virtue of faithfulness.

There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.