Pastoral Resources

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

True valor, on virtue founded strong, meets all events alike.

Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.

The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.

In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known.

Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.

Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.

Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.

It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.

Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue.

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.

Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.

Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle.

I'm just an actor, but if the extra part of it is that I'm helping people or people are being helped by the virtue of what we're doing, then that's just a really nice added extra.

I didn't get into acting to be a public service announcer or an advocate and yet, by virtue of this show and how we handle the subject matter that we've been given, that's kind of how it's evolved in certain ways.

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.

Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue.

I became startled by the extraordinary difference between something whose surface is completely invisible which only makes itself present by virtue of what it reflects, and a window, which doesn't make itself apparent at all, in the ideal case.