Even in decline, a virtuous man increases the beauty of his behavior. A burning stick, though turned to the ground, has its flame drawn upwards.

All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary.

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.

Like the plague, opioids kill the young, the old, the healthy, the sick, the virtuous and the sinful.

All the dark, malevolent Passions of the Soul are roused and exerted; its mild and amiable affections are suppressed; and with them, virtuous Principles are laid prostrate.

The repression of virtuous instinct in the modern world is an incremental tragedy. Repress one instinct, and you repress many; other parts of consciousness go down, also.

Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them.

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself.

The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.

Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.

The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.

The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

Sexual harassment on the job is not a problem for virtuous women.