virtue Quotes

Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.

God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.

The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.