He is good and wise who always speaks the truth, acts on the dictates of virtue, and tries to make others good and happy.
One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.
I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue.
A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.
You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.
It's like there's something very maternal about Wonder Woman: when push comes to shove, if nobody else wants to do it, Wonder Woman would step up and take care of business. But she doesn't want to do...
The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.
Everybody's part of the greater whole and skepticism and virtue are a part of that.
Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.
The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.
Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated...
The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and...
You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.
It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter...
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is...
If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would...
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.