Quotes about Virtue

Here again, the souls 'have what they chose'; they enjoy that kind of after-life which they themselves imagined for the virtuous dead; their failure lay in not imagining better. They are lost because they 'had not faith' — primarily the Christian faith, but also, more generally, faith in the nature of things.

The memory of a good deed lives.

The safeguards of virtue are hateful to the evil disposed.

They that know how to suspect, without exposing or hurting themselves, till honesty comes to be more in fashion, can never suspect too much.

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.

The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.

Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert the tradition for a spontaneous thought, then poetry, wit, hope, virtue, learning, anecdote, all flock to their aid.

Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill?Pay every debt, as if God wrote the bill.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

In virtue of the name of Pontius Pilate being connected with Him, the life and passion of Jesus Christ is an event in the same world history in which our life also takes place.