Character Quote by Joseph Addison

True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.

— William J. H. Boetcker

True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

True happiness, oh young people, does not consist in the pleasures of this world, or in earthly things, but in peace of conscience, which…

— Anonymous

Virtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul.

— Benjamin Whichcote

True happiness does not consist in the pleasures of this world, or in earthly things, but in peace of conscience, which we only have…

— Anonymous

Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we…

— John Henry Newman

¢Some identify Happiness with virtue, some with practical wisdom, others with a kind of philosophical wisdom, others add or exclude pleasure and yet others…

— Aristotle

True virtue never appears so lovely as when it is most oppressed; and the divine excellency of real Christianity is never exhibited with such…

— Jonathan Edwards

Happy will it be for ourselves, and most honorable for human nature, if we have wisdom and virtue enough to set so glorious an…

— Alexander Hamilton

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To…

— Buddha

To love the public, to study universal good, and to promote the interest of the whole world, as far as lies within our power,…

— Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may…

— Abigail Adams