Quotes about Virtue

Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.

Temperance is love in training.

Hypocrisy itself does great honor, or rather justice, to religion, and tacitly acknowledges it to be an ornament to human nature. The hypocrite would not be at so much pains to put on the appearance of virtue, if he did not know it was the most proper and effectual means to gain the love and esteem of mankind.

Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.

Modesty in woman is a virtue most deserving, since we do all we can to cure her of it.

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.

There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.

Thy father's merit sets thee up to view, And shows thee in the fairest point of light, To make thy virtues, or thy faults, conspicuous.

There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.

How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue!