Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I used to think consciousness itself was a virtue, so I tried to keep it all in my head at the same… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
Sympathy for the lowest animals is one of the noblest virtues with which man is endowed. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“those renunciations that men have unwisely called virtue, as much as those natural rebellions that wise men still call sin.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
You may have noted the fact that it is a person's virtues as often as his vices that make him difficult to… — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share Image
Love is the virtue of the Heart, Sincerity is the virtue of the Mind, Decision is the virtue of the Will, Courage… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Religion must be loved as a kind of country and nursing-mother. It was religion that nourished our virtues, that showed us heaven,… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
It is all a mistake that we cannot be good and manly without being scrupulously and studiously good. There is too much… — Charles Henry Parkhurst Copy Share Image
Can it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its virtue? The experiment, at least, is… — George Washington Copy Share Image
ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Seek the outstanding mental conflict in the person, give him the remedy that will overcome that conflict and all the hope and… — Edward Bach Copy Share Image
“That many do not advance in the Christian progress because they stick in penances, and particular exercises, while they neglect the love… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
If we read history with an open mind, we cannot fail to conclude that, among all the military virtues, the energetic conduct… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
I love my mother for all the times she said absolutely nothing… Thinking back on it all, it must have been the… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
“Why should I choose to divide my ethics into four rather than six? Why should I define virtue as four, or two,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs. We cannot work, we cannot think, unless our stomach… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
The true guide of our conduct is no outward authority, but the voice of God, who comes down to dwell in our… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The history of human conduct does not warrant that exalted opinion of human virtue which would make it wise in a nation… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Yet the same gradual decay to which, after a certain age, all the language of psychology seems liable, has been at work… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“People don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some sort… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
