Virtue Quotes - Page 40

Sin, that amends, is but patched with virtue.

Unless virtue guide us our choice must be wrong.

After I published a book called Lincoln's Virtues a wit said that my next book should be Lincoln's Vices. But in my opinion that would be a short book!

Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit--or a mask.

There is no device whatever to be invented for securing happiness without industry, economy, and virtue.

Modesty is policy, no less than virtue.

God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue.

Neither our vices nor our virtues further the poem.

For when was public virtue to be found Where private was not?

Only the wasteful virtues earn the sun.

The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.

Virtue is presupposed in friendship.

I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background.

Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain.

. . . in the final analysis, virtue is not found in extremes, but in prudence . . .

God has granted me today a very particular fondness for requesting of Him that same virtue of ever choosing the worst and that which is contrary to my own liking.

I should wonder what courage—which is the virtue they most value—has to do with a metal ring through your nostril.

If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.

In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known.

Whether the law of marriage be instituted or not, the dictate of nature and virtue seems to be an early attachment to one woman.

Writers tend to consider distinction and originality as virtues, but they are anathema to publishers.

The fantastical idea of virtue and the public good being a sufficient security to the state against the commission of crimes, which you say you have heard insisted on by some, I assure you was never mine.

Everything is useful which contributes to fix the principles and practices of virtue.

A good judge should never boast of his power, because he can do nothing but what he can do justly: he is not the master, but the minister of the law. Authority without virtue is a very dangerous state.

They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also virtue, for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one another.