Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.
Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.
Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.
Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.
Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
Psychologically experienced consciousness is therefore no longer pure consciousness; construed Objectively in this way, consciousness itself becomes something transcendent, becomes an event in that spatial world which appears, by virtue of consciousness, to be transcendent.
Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.
Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries.
Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
Tenderness is a virtue.
Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.
I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue.
What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not exercised in virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights, of which government cannot deprive any portion of citizens, however small.
Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
Uncommon valor was a common virtue.
Perseverance is a virtue that cannot be understated.
