As many as are the difficulties which Virtue has to encounter in this world, her force is yet superior..
I have pushed virtue to outright brutality..
It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age..
Those virtues which cost us dear prove that we love God; those which are easy to us prove that He loves us..
Too much virtue can be criminal..
PILLORY, n. A mechanical device for inflicting personal distinction - prototype of the modern newspaper conducted by persons of austere virtues and b….
Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag about..
Virtue lives when Beauty dies..
There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them..
Fear is the virtue of slaves; but the heart that loveth is willing..
Ah, though a Roman, I am not less a man..
Pain is God's midwife, that helps some virtue into existence..
Viewed systematically, religion can be differentiated from other culturally constituted institutions by virtue only of its reference to superhuman be….
Virtue in a man doesn't make you want to grab him..
A virtuous and well-disposed person, like a good metal, the more he is fired, the more he is fined; the more he is opposed, the more he is approved: ….
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….
The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue..
In proportion as a man is selfish, so far has he receded from the motive which constitutes virtue..
When we envy another, we make their virtue our vice..
If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom..
HOBBES: Virtue needs some cheaper thrills..