Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.
Elegance is inferior to virtue.
I am a very conscientious golfer. I count every stroke. I learned to play that way. That is the only way I can play. It taught me to be honest. There is no greater virtue than honesty.
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
Virtue is insufficient temptation.
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?
The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
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.
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.
Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.
Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.
To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.