And be on they guard against the good and the just! They would fain curcify those who devise their own read more

And be on they guard against the good and the just! They would fain curcify those who devise their own virtue -- they hate the lonesome ones.

If there's a power above us, (and that there is all nature cries
aloud
Through all her works) read more

If there's a power above us, (and that there is all nature cries
aloud
Through all her works) he must delight in virtue.

Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave.

Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave.

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores

Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world.

Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world.

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love read more

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong".

Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent.

Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent.

Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! virtue
is at hand.

Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! virtue
is at hand.

Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.

Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.