Virtue Quotes - Page 25

My confidence is that there will for a long time be virtue and good sense enough in our countrymen to correct abuses.

If I say that Shakespeare is the greatest of intellects, I have said all concerning him. But there is more in Shakespeare's intellect than we have yet seen. It is what I call an unconscious intellect; there is more virtue in it that he himself is aware of.

He who talks much about virtue in the abstract, begins to be suspected; it is shrewdly guessed that where there is great preaching there will be little almsgiving.

I know now that true charity consists in bearing all our neighbors'defects--not being surprised at their weakness, but edified at their smallest virtues.

Although the many virtues that courtesans possessed were employed to defy circumstances, the role they played depended on the same circumstances over which they triumphed- conditions which to, fortunately for modern women, no longer exist.

Homeliness is the best guard of a young girl's virtue.

Calamity is virtue's opportunity.

Whatever happens, the path of virtue should not be given up.

The Romans rightly employed the same word (virtus) to designate courage, which is, in a physical sense, what the other is in a moral; the highest virtue of all being victory over ourselves.

Glory, the casual gift of thoughtless crowds! Glory, the bribe of avaricious virtue!

Absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is, let alone the dullness of it and the pomposities of it.

The virtue of the country is that it makes you thirsty for the city.

Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.

Virtue, for us, is obedience to God in Christ.

As the Prussian historian Treitschke later complained, the proponents of free trade in Hamburg had 'in German fashion made out of necessity not just a virtue but a theory'.

They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

In self-trust all the virtues are comprehended.

Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues.

There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'Tis the doctrine of faith over works.

The cruelest foe is a masked benefactor. The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue.

Tart, cathartic virtue.

The virtue of books is to be readable.

The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.

Great parts produce great vices as well as virtues.

I fear this is not the right exchange to attain virtue, to exchange pleasures for pleasures, pains for pains and fears for fears, the greater for the less like coins, but that the only valid currency for which all these things should be exchanged is wisdom.