Virtue Quotes

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

By virtue of my traditions, and my community, I worked hard to ensure that I was accepted as part of the traditional family of America.

Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.

We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.

Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.

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

All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance.

It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.