Quotes about Virtue

Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty.

there was only one aristocracy, that of decency, and that this was not inherited or bought with money or titles, but was only gained through good deeds.

Their most notable defect was that they considered work a virtue, even manual labor. They were materialists, conquerors, and they were infused with a messianic enthusiasm for reforming those who did not think as they did; they did not, however, represent an immediate threat to civilization. No

Combine common sense and the Golden Rule, and you will have very little bad luck.

To enjoy the things we ought, and to hate the things we ought, has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself.

Charity is the perfection and ornament of religion.

Certainly this is a duty, not a sin. "Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness."

Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.

Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if He ever had a chosen people, whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.

That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of the same kind; not only the same end must be proposed, but the same means must be approved by both.

The one thing worth living for is to keep one's soul pure.