A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. [Galatians 5:23, 24]

For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.

The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance.

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.

Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them.

The virtue in most request is conformity.

The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.

Virtue is the only true nobility.

Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the locked-in-ness of human habitations are what human nature habitually abhors; while on the contrary, haze, mist, and the haunting spirits of the mountains are what human nature seeks, and yet can rarely find.

Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything.

The time is always right to do what is right.

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

The first time you see Winston Churchill you see all his faults and the rest of your life you spend discovering his virtues.

Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.

There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

Virtue is a sure anchor.

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 are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.

Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.

If we had to seek virtue outside of ourselves, that would assuredly be difficult; but as it is within us, it suffices to avoid bad thoughts and to keep our souls turned toward the Lord.

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

Ah, Eugénie, have done with virtues! Among the sacrifices that can be made to those counterfeit divinities, is there one worth an instant of the pleasures one tastes in outraging them?

Assume a virtue if you have it not.

Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world.

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.