The cardinal virtue of a teacher [is] to protect the pupil from his own influence.
Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world.
Virtue and sense are one; and, trust me, still A faithless heart betrays the head unsound.
Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
No woman is envious of another's virtue who is conscious of her own.
A cardinal American virtue, 'ambition,' promotes a cardinal American vice, 'deviant behavior.
It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole, or to hide herself under some massive tomb, thereby to shun the strokes of fortune.
The virtue in most request is conformity.
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
There is a measure needing courage to adopt and enforce it, which I believe to be of virtue sufficient to redeem the nation in this its darkest hour: one only; I know of no other to which we may rationally trust for relief from impending dangers without and within.
In self-trust all the virtues are comprehended.
I think my virtue was I never thought "This is impossible.
Virtue debases itself in justifying itself.
Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him to perform his function well.
Beauty vanishes; virtue is lasting.
It’s true what they say about patience being a virtue; it just happens to be a virtue that I choose not to pursue.
In a self-respecting India, is not every woman's virtue as much every man's concern as his own sister's?
Faith is an unclassified cognitive illness disguised as a moral virtue.
Indolence, languid as it is, often masters both passions and virtues.
A theory which is not refutable by any conceivable event is non-scientific. Irrefutability is not a virtue of a theory (as people often think) but a vice.