Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.
Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.
Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness.
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Blushing is the color of virtue.
Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.
The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.
Humility is not something that comes naturally. But it is a cardinal virtue that should be pursued more than any other.
I believe that loyalty is a cardinal virtue. Nowhere in the world is loyalty so little revered and tittle-tattle so greatly venerated as in Washington.
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.
Cheerfulness is a very great help in fostering the virtue of charity. Cheerfulness itself is a virtue.
It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.
The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
