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

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

God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

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.

Modesty is the color of virtue.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.

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.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

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

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

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.

I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

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

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

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

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

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

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.

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.

I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out… without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.

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

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

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

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

Silence is the virtue of fools.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Sweet mercy is nobility’s true badge.

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

An honest man’s the noblest work of God.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

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

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

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.

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.