The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.

Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.

If the highest things are unknowable then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim wisdom the source of virtue and of fame obtained with labour for mankind employed and then when most you share it best enjoyed.

Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom unless they teach virtue they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel.

However great an evil immorality may be we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.

Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils for it is folly vice and madness without tuition or restraint.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation as regulated by wisdom.

Virtues are acquired through endeavor which rests wholly upon yourself.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next virtue is doing it.

Britain which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed is now being bombed and burned into democracy.

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

Vice stirs up war virtue fights.

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

Justice is rather the activity of truth than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth as to neglect the needful duties of active life for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

When virtue is lost benevolence appears when benevolence is lost right conduct appears when right conduct is lost expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth it is the beginning of disorder.

Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity the force of which is never known till it is felt and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.

In this world shipmates sin that pays its way can travel freely and without passport whereas Virtue if a pauper is stopped at all frontiers.

Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.