Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice. — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Abstract qualities begin With capitals alway: The True, the Good, the Beautiful- Those are the things that pay! — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
There is virtue in virtuosity, especially today, when it protects us from the tedious spectacle of ineptitude. — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What saves the virtue of many a woman is that protecting god, the impossible. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“If you do not have courage, you may not have the opportunity to use any of your other virtues.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and a series of unconnected arts. Though just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“A praying mother symbolizes grace, strength and wisdom; she is an icon of productivity and ingenuity.” — Agu Jaachynma N.E Copy Share Image
Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience. — Diogenes Copy Share Image
“Endurance: It is the spirit which can bear things, not simply with resignation, but with blazing hope. It is the quality which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
POVERTY, n. A file provided for the teeth of the rats of reform. Its victims are distinguished by possession of all the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all! Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall: Some run from brakes of… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Greatness of Soul seems therefore to be as it were a crowning ornament of the virtues; it enhances their greatness, and it… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Class can 'walk with kings and keep its virtue and talk with crowds and keep the common touch.' Everyone is comfortable with… — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
How much on outward show does all depend, If virtues from within no lustre lend! Strip off th'externals M and Y, the… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
What we call vice in our neighbor may be nothing less than a crude virtue. To him who knows nothing more of… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
It is not every calamity that is a curse, and early adversity is often a blessing. Perhaps Madame de Maintenon would never… — James Sharp Copy Share Image
We may wonder at the choice of Israel and Rome as the archetypes of the new nation, in view of the long… — Robert Neelly Bellah 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
We often equate charity with visiting the sick, taking in casseroles to those in need, or sharing our excess with those who… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
You can ask yourself, if a film makes a claim, is the claim true or false? Having said that, a style of… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
The suggestion that Jews were selected from among all nations of the earth to be God's chosen people suggested a kind of… — Israel Shenker Copy Share Image
When death strikes down the innocent and young, for every fragile form from which he lets the panting spirit free, a hundred… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin. Even though the result… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The surest step toward joy in the morning is virtue in the evening. — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
Big-heartednes s is the most essential virtue on the spiritual journey. — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
We tolerate without rebuke the vices with which we have grown familiar. — Publilius Syrus Copy Share Image
