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

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

Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.

Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

Modesty is the color of virtue.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.

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.

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

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

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.

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

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.

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

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

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

The object of the superior man is truth.

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.

Blushing is the color of virtue.

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

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

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

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

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.

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

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.

The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Patience is a virtue, and I’m learning patience. It’s a tough lesson.

The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.

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

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

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

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

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

In my opinion, there is no aspect of reality beyond the reach of the human mind.

Honor is the reward of virtue.

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

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

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.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

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

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

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.

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.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

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

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

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man’s insecurity before himself and before nature.

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.

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.

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

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity… The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.