I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it.

I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it.

You had better have one King than five hundred.

Never in the way, and never out of the way.

Let us search into the records of Holy Writ, if out of this their great charter, there be not a seal grant of a lesser, though like privilege, and this by virtue of Christ, in that we have the honour to be accounted Abraham's seed as truly as they.

Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.

Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease.

Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.

Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.

Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.

There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

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.

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised.

Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue.

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

We have forgotten that we have not come to an empty land to inherit it, but we have come to conquer a country from people inhabiting it, that governs it by the virtue of its language and savage culture.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

To say of shame - what is it? Of virtue - we can miss it; Of sin-we can kiss it, And it's no longer sin.

Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.

Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.

It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves about the burden and change being placed upon them.

Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue; it is sufficient that they love themselves.

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.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

The Menzies Government, by its participation in the plans for the development of other nations, can see the virtue of planning for them but apparently cannot see the virtue of a plan for Australia.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

My purpose is to inspire people of all walks of life to discover the virtue inherent within them and to bring forth that virtue in their daily lives.

Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.

Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.

Modesty is the color of virtue.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.