Quotes about Virtue
A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert the tradition for a spontaneous thought, then poetry, wit, hope, virtue, learning, anecdote, all flock to their aid.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill?Pay every debt, as if God wrote the bill.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
In virtue of the name of Pontius Pilate being connected with Him, the life and passion of Jesus Christ is an event in the same world history in which our life also takes place.
— Karl Barth
The last day will prove that some of the holiest men that ever lived are hardly known.
— JC Ryle
But for we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare... are to be found portrayed in it.
— James A. Garfield
Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste.
— John Donne
For liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands.
— John Milton
Virtue that wavers is not virtue, but vice revolted from itself, and after a while returning. The actions of just and pious men do not darken in their middle course.
— John Milton