Quotes about Virtue

A woman's elegance will charm you for days, her beauty will charm you for weeks, her grace will charm you for years, and her virtue will charm you for a lifetime.

Love has the mind of a sage, the heart of a saint, and the soul of an angel.

Virtuous theologians work as God's stewards building God's home (1 Cor. 3:9), not masters building their own little empires.

We ought to desire whatever is really good for us and nothing else.

A woman may be beautiful but have poor character. A man may be a business genius, making money left and right, but lack common courtesy, sensitivity, and compassion.

HUMILITY: Imitate Jesus and Socrates.

Even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each one of you, so the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also.

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.

Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour.

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the highest virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the end to the means.

God grant that men of principle shall be our principal men.