Flirting is the sin of the virtuous and the virtue of the sinful..
For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness..
Kindness is virtue itself..
Acts of virtue ripen into habits; and the goodly and permanent result is the formation or establishment of a virtuous character..
Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps..
A temperate anger has virtue in it..
Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar..
In the clear mind of virtue treason can find no hiding-place..
No nation has reason to regard itself superior to others by virtue of its innate endowment..
Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright..
One's outlook is a part of his virtue..
Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice..
Neither our vices nor our virtues further the poem..
A man hasn't got a corner on virtue just because his shoes are shined..
We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, but much oftener of that which we lack..
Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination..
Suspicion is a Virtue, if in the interests of the good of the people..
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue..
You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults..
Void of freedom, what would virtue be?.
Counsel and conversation is a good second education, that improves all the virtue and corrects all the vice of the former, and of nature itself..