In perseverance, in self command, in forethought, in all virtues which conduce to success in life, the Scots have never been surpassed.

Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man’s own will

Of what use is a long life, if we amend so little? Alas, a long life often adds to our sins rather than to our virtue!

One problem we face today is that consequentialists make a virtue of having emotions cloud our judgments, not only to avoid hurt feelings but because emotion is seen as a sign of authenticity.

True charity consists in putting up with all one’s neighbors fault’s; never being surprised by his weakness, and being inspired by the least of his virtues

Envy was once considered to be one of the seven deadly sins before it became one of the most admired virtues under its new name, ‘social justice

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

Those words, temperate and moderate, are words either of political cowardice, or of cunning, or seduction. A thing, moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper, is always a virtue; but moderation in principle, is a species of vice.

Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet and to repulse it

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice

Self-love is no part of morality. Indeed it is exactly its counterpart. It is the sole antagonist of virtue leading us constseseantly by our propensities to self-gratification in violation of our moral duties to others.

Everything is useful which contributes to fix in the principles and practices of virtue.

Things can sometimes work out if you’re smart, but my greatest virtue is patience.

A city is not adorned by external things, but by the virtue of those who dwell in it

Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a man of virtue by having reason as the consolation of grief.

Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That’s all any of us have.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.

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

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.

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

A pattern has an integrity independent of the medium by virtue of which you have received the information that it exists.

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

With age does come experience and that can be a virtue if it is sensibly used.

Saying ‘No’ does not always show a lack of generosity and that saying ‘Yes’ is not always a virtue.

Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.

Love kindled by virtue always kindles another, provided that its flame appear outwardly.

Love is the source of every virtue in you and of every deed which deserves punishment.

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

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

There is no way by which we can substitute the authority of law for the virtue of man

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.

True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue.

Make a virtue of necessity.

Patience is a conquering virtue.

It is substantially true that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government.

We sainted St. Tammany (King Tamanend III) because he embodied moral perfection and every divine qualification that a deity could possess. I hold him in higher esteem than the saints of the Roman Catholic Church. He’ll forever be the patron saint of America.

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.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

We exist only by virtue of what we possess, we possess only what is really present to us, and many of our memories, our moods, our ideas sail away on a voyage of their own until they are lost to sight!

Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.

Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.

Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

The virtue of a free man appears equally great in refusing to face difficulties as in overcoming them.

Fools! who from hence into the notion fall that vice or virtue there is none at all.

As soon as virtue is born, envy arises against it, and the body will sooner lose its shadow than virtue its envy.

Beauty adorns virtue.