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Quotations
On Virtue
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Virtue alone is sweet society,
It keeps the key to all heroic
hearts,
And opens you a welcome in them all.—Emerson. |
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maketh men on the earth famous, in their graves illustrious,
in the heavens immortal.—Child.
When we pray for any virtue, we should
cultivate the virtue as well
as pray for it; the form of your prayers should be the rule of your
life.—Jeremy Taylor.
To be ambitious of true honor, of the
true glory and perfection of
our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.—Sir P. Sidney.
Virtue is everywhere the same, because
it comes from God, while
everything else is of men.—Voltaire.
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Know then this truth, enough for
man to know,
Virtue alone is happiness below.—Pope. |
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Virtue has many preachers,
but
few martyrs.—Helvetius.
The virtue of a man ought to be measured
not by his extraordinary
exertions, but by his every-day conduct.—Pascal.
The only impregnable citadel of virtue
is religion; for there is no
bulwark of mere morality which some temptation may not overtop, or
undermine and destroy.—Sir P. Sidney.
Virtue consisteth of three
parts: temperance, fortitude, and
justice.—Epicurus |
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What nothing earthly gives, or can
destroy,
The soul's calm sunshine, and the
heart-felt
joy,
Is virtue's prize.—Pope. |
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- Virtue is not to be considered in the
light of mere innocence, or
abstaining from harm; but as the exertion of our faculties in doing
good.—Bishop Butler.
- Live virtuously, my lord, and you
cannot
die too soon, nor live too
long.—Lady Rachel Russell.
- If you can be well without health,
you
can be happy without virtue.—Burke.
- Recommend to your children virtue;
that
alone can make happy, not
gold.—Beethoven
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Well may your heart believe the
truths I tell;
'Tis virtue makes the bliss
where'er we dwell.—Collins. |
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- An
effort made with ourselves for the good of others, with the
intention of pleasing God alone.—Bernardin de St.
Pierre.
- Good sense, good health, good
conscience, and good fame,—all these
belong to virtue, and all prove that virtue has a title to your love.—Cowper.
- Our virtues live upon our incomes;
our
vices consume our capital.—J. Petit-Senn.
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O let us still the secret joy
partake,
To follow virtue even for virtue's
sake.—Pope. |
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- I would be
virtuous for my own sake, though nobody were to know it;
as I would be clean for my own sake, though nobody were to see me.—Shaftesbury.
- Do not be troubled because you have
not great virtues. God made a
million spears of grass where he made one tree. The earth is fringed
and carpeted, not with forests, but with grasses. Only have enough of
little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because
you are neither a hero nor a saint.—Beecher.
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