A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.
Lyman AbbottDelicacy is the genuine tint of virtue.
Marguerite De ValoisSometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
Marcus AureliusPoetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.
Christopher FryLife has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul GauguinConfidence in another man's virtue is no slight evidence of a man's own
MontaigneThough ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
QuintilianSuspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.
Hosea BallouThe virtue lies
In the struggle, not the prize
Richard Monckton MilnesTolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.
Gilbert Keith ChestertonVirtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
Edgar Watson HoweMore people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.
R S SurteesVirtue treads paths that end not in the grave
James Russell LowellSuffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
Anatole FranceIt is queer how it is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.
Rebecca WestAll government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
Edmund BurkeOf all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.
Francis BaconI don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.
Boris PasternakOne of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.
Dorothy NevillA large part of Christian virtue consists in right habits.
William PaleyActions receive their tincture from the times,
And as they change are virtues made or crimes (A Hymn to the Pillory)
Daniel DefoeRecommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.
Ludwig Van BeethovenThe evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are dupes of pretended patriots.
Elbridge GerryProsperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
TacitusWhat is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone
Edward Bulwer-LyttonBlushing is the colour of virtue
Matthew HenryModeration has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
Benjamin DisraeliFew men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder
George WashingtonOne path alone leads to a life of peace: The path of virtue.
JuvenalThe greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
AristotleExtremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Barry GoldwaterA few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
PlutarchVirtues neglected then, adored become,
And graces slighted, blossom on the tomb. (The Borough)
George CrabbeIf virtue precede us every step will be safe.
SenecaTo be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue
Hannah MoreThe virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarcely worth the sentinel
Oliver GoldsmithTeach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
Sir Walter ScottModeration in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Thomas PaineWe are apt to mistake our vocation by looking out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and by stepping over the ordinary ones that lie directly in the road before us
Hannah MoreModesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.
Andre MauroisI would remind you that extremism in the defence of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!
Barry GoldwaterAffliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed.
Hannah MoreEvery act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.
Bishop Jeremy TaylorChoose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
George Bernard ShawIf you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues
Edward Bulwer-LyttonPunctuality is the virtue of the bored.
Evelyn WaughWhen you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.
Casey StengelVirtue is the roughest way, but proves at night a bed of down
Sir Henry WottonHumility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
Saint Augustine
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