Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.
Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.
A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.
Virtue is the truest nobility.
God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.
Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle.
The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.
I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.
Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.
The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience.
Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.
Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.
The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society.
Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.
