Quotes About Virtue

Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul.

Much more wretched than lackof health inthe body, it is to dwell with a soul that is not healthy, but corrupt.

Health is the requisite after morality

Character is very much a matter of health.

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

Virtue is to the soul what health is tot he body.

Abstinence from sins is better than seeking help afterwards.

Sin writes histories, goodness is silent.

Error has never approached my spirit.

In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.

We were meant to survive because of our minds' ability to reason, our ability to live with frustration in order to maintain our virtue. We wore smiling masks while dying inside.

Let us not become the evil that we deplore.

Indeed the general natural Tendency of Reading good History, must be, to fix in the Minds of Youth deep Impressions of the Beauty and Usefulness of Virtue of all Kinds, Publick Spirit, Fortitude.

The unweary, unostentatious, and inglorious crusade of England against slavery may probably be regarded as among the three or four perfectly virtuous pages comprised in the history of nations.

The greatest historian should also be a great moralist. It is no proof of impartiality to treat wickedness and goodness on the same level.

The moralist must praise heroism and condemn cruelty; but the moralist does not explain events.

Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. [Ger., Das Uebel macht eine Geschichte und das Gute keine.]

The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.

There have certainly been many periods in history when virtue was more rare than under the Caesars; but there has probably never been a period when vice was more extravagant or uncontrolled.

From the paths of blood (and such is the history of nations) I cannot refuse to turn aside to gather some flowers of science or virtue.

Have you ever found in history, one single example of a nation, thoroughly corrupted, that was afterwards restored to virtue? And without virtue there can be no political liberty.

Happy and successful homes cannot be built on immorality.

The first contributing factor to a happy home is the sublime virtue of loyalty, one of the noblest attributes of the human soul.

Call'd to the temple of impure delight He that abstains, and he alone, does right. If a wish wander that way, call it home; He cannot long be safe whose wishes roam.