For women to be supplying the soldiery with banners, flannel shirts and other material comforts was, superficially, all of a piece with… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
There is no part of the whole course of our Saviour Christ's life or death, but it is well worthy our looking… — Lancelot Andrewes Copy Share Image
The tools are evolving, and people's interests are evolving as well. So, suddenly people like to hear bands, people like Devendra Banhart… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication. — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
What if one happens to be possessed of a heart that can’t be trusted—? What if the heart, for its own unfathomable… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
If you wish to leave much wealth to your children, leave them in God's care. Do not leave them riches, but virtue… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Mercy can purge the soul of sin, making room for a fresh start. Truth is vital in order that we have an… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Fond man! though all the heroes of your line Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine In proud display; yet take… — Juvenal Copy Share Image
It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
Faith is the surrender of the mind, it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Maybe I don't have the patience to make a virtue of necessity - the patience to carry something all the way through,… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
A virtuous and well-disposed person, like a good metal, the more he is fired, the more he is fined; the more he… — Cardinal Richelieu Copy Share Image
There surely is a being who presides over the universe; and who, with infinite wisdom and power, has reduced the jarring elementsinto… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Every man, in proportion to his virtue, considers himself, with respect to the great community of mankind, as the steward and guardian… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Vice goes along way towards making life bearable. A little vice now and then is relished by the best of men. — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
Business, especially big business, is now organized like an army. It is, as some would say, a sort of mild militarism without… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Just as the teaching of the Law and the prophets, being harbingers of the coming advent of the Logos in the flesh,… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
“I felt deep within me that the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory,… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
For many wish not so much to be, as to seem to be, endowed with real virtue. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Authorship is, according to the spirit in which it is pursued, an infamy, a pastime, a day-labor, a handicraft, an art, a… — August Wilhelm von Schlegel Copy Share Image
And for the authentical truth of either person or actions, who (worth the respecting) will expect it in a poem, whose subject… — George Chapman Copy Share Image
It is not the responsibility of knights errant to discover whether the afflicted, the enchained and the oppressed whom they encounter on… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
