virtue
“The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.”
“Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.”
“Blushing is the color of virtue.”
“If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.”
“If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.”
“If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?”
“Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.”
“Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness.”
“Power and profit cannot sway him, the masses cannot shift him, and nothing in the world can shake him.”
“A person who is transformed by the instructions of a teacher and guided by ritual becomes a gentleman.”
“Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.”
“The endeavor to persevere in one’s being is the first and only foundation of virtue.”
“Happiness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself.”
“Rarely do great beauty and virtue dwell together.”
“An honest man's the noblest work of God.”
“The greatest of faults is to be conscious of none.”
“Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.”
“They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.”
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the other virtues.”
“Prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue.”