Quotes about Virtue
Power, unless it be the power of intellect or virtue, has ever the greatest attraction for the lowest natures.
- Charles Dickens
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
- Henry David Thoreau
I have tried so hard to do right.
- Grover Cleveland
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking
- H Jackson Brown, Jr.
We are sometimes so busy being good angels that we neglect to be good men and women.
- Francis de Sales
I say women exhibit the most exalted virtue when they depart from the domestic circle and enter on the concerns of their country, of humanity, and of their G-d!
- John Quincy Adams
Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
- Tertullian
Nothing so casts down the manly mind from it's height as the fondling of women and those bodily contacts which belong to the married state.
- St. Augustine
Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue.
- GK Chesterton
Modest women choose a man by the mind, not the eye.
- Publilius Syrus
Do what you can to do what you ought, and leave hoping and fearing alone.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
Health is the requisite after morality.
- Thomas Jefferson