Contests Quote by John Strachan

Virtue is her own reward.

— John Dryden

Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.

— Silius Italicus

“Harness the imagination: Sometimes curbing her, sometimes giving her rein, for she is the whole of happiness. She sets to rights even the understanding.…

— Baltasar Gracián

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

— Alexander Pope

“The moral crisis she'd just gone through made her feel indulgent toward the faults, the delinquencies of others. How thoroughly a human being can…

— Baroness Emma Orczy

To be a righteous woman during the winding up scenes on this earth, before the second coming of our Savior, is an especially noble…

— Spencer W. Kimball

Virtue is to herself the best reward.

— Henry More

Every woman whether rich or poor, married or single, has a circle of influence within which, according to her character, she is exerting a…

— John Angell James

“This striving to help save the world a little bit, to push it just a bit farther into the right—this action was the only…

— Ray Smith

“Nor could she help feeling, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point…

— Jane Austen

Extol not riches then, the toil of fools, The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare, more apt To slacken virtue, and abate her edge,…

— John Milton

“America stands before the world as an impetuous void, a fatality without substance. Nothing prepared her for hegemony; yet she tends toward it, not…

— Emil Cioran