The health of a church depends not merely on the creed which it professes, not even on the wisdom and holiness of a few great ecclesiastics, but on t….
Personally I regard idling as a virtue, but civilized society holds otherwise..
One of the real dangers of loyalty is that it may become associated with certain types of group-think, chauvinism, jingoism, and thus become socially….
Freedom without virtue isn't freedom - it will eventually destroy a society..
Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem.
Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag about..
Once you'd resolved to go, there was nothing to it at all..
Virtue and integrity are necessary for genuine happiness. Guard your integrity with care..
Virtue is the fount whence honour springs..
Integrity is praised, and starves..
It is all a mistake that we cannot be good and manly without being scrupulously and studiously good. There is too much mechanism about our virtue..
I think we're paralyzed by the virtues of a combination of liberalism and bureaucracy. And Trump doesn't know any of that. All he knows, and he's lik….
A Christian expects to go to Heaven on the virtue of another..
We human beings grow through our failures, not our virtues..
Every vice has its excuse ready..
Patience is a virtue, and Americans have it in short supply..
We tolerate without rebuke the vices with which we have grown familiar..
We simply rob ourselves when we make presents to the dead..
It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure as its recompense..
There are few instances of the exercise of particular virtues which seem harder to attain to, or which appear more amiable and engaging in themselves….
Meditate upon my counsels; love them; follow them; To the divine virtues will they know how to lead thee. I swear it by the One who in our hearts eng….