Character Quote by Giuseppe Mazzini

“Constancy is the foundation of virtues”

— Francis Bacon

Constancy, far from being a virtue, seems often to be the besetting sin of the human race, daughter of laziness and self-sufficiency, sister of…

— Freya Stark

Whatever is genuine in social relations endures, despite of time, error, absence, and destiny; and that which has no inherent vitality had better die…

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

I believe that around us there is only one word on all sides, one immense word which reveals our solitude and extinguishes our radiance:…

— Henri Barbusse

“Another useful point to bear in mind: What qualities has nature given us to counter that defect? As an antidote to unkindness it gave…

— Marcus Aurelius

Virtue alone is the unerring sign of a noble soul.

— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

Some empirical feelings, such as sympathy, are indispensable parts of certain moral virtues.

— Allen W. Wood

Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.

— Thomas Carlyle

Humanity unceasingly strives forward from a lower, more partial and obscure understanding of life to one more general and more lucid.

— Leo Tolstoy

“Unhappiness, which also possesses a clearness of vision of its own, augmented the small amount of daylight which existed in this mind.”

— Victor Hugo

“It is not that the noble nature loves monotony, any more than it loves darkness or pain. But it can bear with it, and…

— John Ruskin

“It is not even in extraordinary situations, where all eyes are upon us, where all our energy is aroused, and all our vigilance is…

— Albert Pike