Pastoral Resources

Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.

Perseverance is a virtue that cannot be understated.

Extol Jewish virtue, modern Zionism and the Israeli Defense Forces.

Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country.

Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue; it is sufficient that they love themselves.

The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.

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

We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.

Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.

It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.

The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.

Blind submission in women is considered a virtue, while submission to wrong is itself wrong, and resistance to wrong is virtue alike in women as in man.

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

Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.

Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.

Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.