Pastoral Resources

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

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.

Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem.

Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.

Virtue is harmony.

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.

A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.

The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.

Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.

I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.

Too much virtue can be criminal.

Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.