Virtue Quotes

Good art however "immoral" is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.

Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.

The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.

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.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

When we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code, but a character.

As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.

Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.

The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.

Who sows virtue reaps honor.

Compassion is not a popular virtue.

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

The whole mystery of temptation is to have sins suggested to us, and to be swept after them by a sudden enthusiasm, which sometimes feels as strong as the Spirit of God ever made in us the enthusiasm for virtue.

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

I'm really tired of virtue.

I'd like to know what law is it that says that a woman is a better parent, simply by virtue of her sex.

Everybody's part of the greater whole and skepticism and virtue are a part of that.

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.