Quotes about Virtue

I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing.

The weakest of all weak things is a virtue which has not been tested in the fire.

It is never wrong to do the right thing.

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.

The Moral Sense teaches us what is right, and how to avoid it--when unpopular.

Virtue never has been as respectable as money.

To be good is noble. To tell other people how to be good is even nobler and much less trouble.

I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one.

It made him feel a little uncomfortable sometimes when he reflected that the good little boys always died. He loved to live, you know, and this was the most unpleasant feature about being a Sunday-school-book boy. He knew it was not healthy to be good.

Do right and you will be conspicuous.

No fact is more firmly established than that lying is a necessity of our circumstances--the deduction that it is then a Virtue goes without saying.