It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

Sweet mercy is nobility’s true badge.

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

An honest man’s the noblest work of God.

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all possible superstitions, as long as they are not murderous, than to live without religion.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.

This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

Allah’s the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner.

As far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

The Scoutmaster who is a hero to his boys holds a powerful lever to their development but at the same time brings a great responsibility on himself. They are quick enough to see the smallest characteristic about him, whether it be a virtue or a vice.