Pastoral Resources

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.

Virtue looks good but it only suits imposing figures.

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society.

Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.

A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

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

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.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue.

Virtue can only flourish among equals.

Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.