Pastoral Resources

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it.

Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

Honor is the reward of virtue.

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.

Confidentiality is a virtue of the loyal, as loyalty is the virtue of faithfulness.

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.