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.
Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.
All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.
In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.
I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.
The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted.
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.
Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.