Praise is a debt we owe unto the virtue of others, and due unto our own from all whom malice hath not… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt. — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Modesty and reverence are no less virtues of freemen than the democratic feeling which will submit neither to arrogance nor to servility. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Pleasure which must be enjoyed at the expense of another's pain, can never be enjoyed by a worthy mind. Pleasure's couch is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Virtue cannot be followed but for herself, and if one sometimes borrows her mask to some other purpose, she presently pulls it… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Vice never leads to virtue. Hate never promotes love. Cowardice never gives courage. Doubt never inspires faith. — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Your Christians, whom one persecutes in vain, have something in them that surpasses the human. They lead a life of such innocence,that… — Pierre Corneille 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
An interesting piece of work, freely chosen, which has the virtue of inducing concentration rather than fatigue, adds to the child's energies… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Temptations come on some people for the cleansing of previous sins, on other for the beautification of their current perfection, and on… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
We talk of the enormous virtues of work, but it turns out that that is mostly for the poor. If you're rich… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I believe there is one Supreme most perfect being. ... I believe He is pleased and delights in the happiness of those… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Great virtues may draw attention from defects, they cannot sanctify them. A pebble surrounded by diamonds remains a common stone, and a… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Humility is the only soil in which the graces root; the lack of humility is the sufficient explanation of every defect and… — Andrew Murray Copy Share Image
Gaze not on beauty too much, lest it blast thee; nor too long, lest it blind thee; nor too near, lest it… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
The term 'charisma' will be applied to a certain quality of an individual personality by virtue of which he is considered extraordinary… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
The more we grow in love and virtue and holiness, the more we see love and virtue and holiness outside. All condemnation… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
When the Gauls laid waste Rome, they found the senators clothed in their robes, and seated in stern tranquillity in their curule… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Today's banalities apparently gain in profundity if one states that the wisdom of the past, for all its virtues, belongs to the… — Russell Jacoby Copy Share Image
She was like me in lineaments-- her eyes Her hair, her features, all, to the very tone Even of her voice, they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The peculiarity of ill temper is that it is the vice of the virtuous.” — Henry Drummond Copy Share Image
Tolerance is not really a lived virtue; it’s more of a cerebral ascent. — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
