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Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.
Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.
Virtue and sense are one; and, trust me, still
A faithless heart betrays the head unsound.
Virtue and sense are one; and, trust me, still
A faithless heart betrays the head unsound.
Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
Virtue is indeed its own reward.
[Lat., Ipsa quidem pretium virtus sibi.]
Virtue is indeed its own reward.
[Lat., Ipsa quidem pretium virtus sibi.]
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.
A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.
What shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in
the heart.
What shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in
the heart.
The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast read more
The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.
Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.
Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.
