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

Who sows virtue reaps honor.

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

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

Religion, born of the earth’s need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind.

Honor is the reward of virtue.

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

What charitable 1 percenters can’t do is assume responsibility – America’s national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.

No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.

I always knew that St. Jude was an amazing organization but meeting the kids and seeing how the hospital works first hand was truly beautiful. It doesn’t feel like a regular hospital all dreary and sad. It’s a colorful, beautiful, comfortable, fun place to live and the energy is wonderful.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: ‚What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.‘

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

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.

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

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.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

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

Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

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.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

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

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

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.

I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there’s no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

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

I have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I got involved with debt cancellation because Desmond Tutu demanded that the world respond to that situation.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

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

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

The object of the superior man is truth.

The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.

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

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

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

In the divine milieu, all the elements of the universe touch each other by that which is most inward and ultimate in them. There they concentrate, little by little, all that is purest and most attractive in them without loss and without danger of subsequent corruption.

You can’t take care of charity unless you take care of yourself first.

To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.

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.

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

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

Oh, how I would like a poor Church, and for the poor.

If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.

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

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.