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  2. A noble spirit disdaineth the malice of fortune; his greatness of Soul is not to be cast down.

  3. A thankful heart is the parent of all virtues.

  4. Against the head which innocence secures, Insidious malice aims her dart in vain; Turned backwards by the powerful breath of heaven.

  5. Although a cloth be washed a hundred times, How can it be rendered clean and pure If it be washed in water which is dirty?

  6. Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has fait hand is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man...

  7. And he by no uncommon lot Was famed for virtues he had not.

  8. Ascetic: one who makes a necessity of virtue.

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

 10. Blessed is the memory of those who have kept themselves unspotted from the world! Yet more blessed and more dear the memory of those who have kept themselves unspotted in the world.

 11. Certainly, virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed, for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.

 12. Every man has his appointed day; life is brief and irrevocable; but it is the work of virtue to extend our fame by our deeds.

 13. Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

 14. Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it.

 15. Food, sleep, fear, propagation; each is the common property of men with brutes. Virtue is really their additional distinction; devoid of virtue, they are equal with brutes.

 16. For virtue only finds eternal Fame.

 17. God looks with favour at pure, not full, hands.

 18. He that has energy enough to root out a vice, should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place; otherwise he will have his labour to renew. A strong soil that has produced weeds may be made to produce wheat.

 19. He who dies for virtue, does not perish.

 20. He's armed without that's innocent within.

 21. Holiness is what is loved by all the gods. It is loved because it is holy, and not holy because it is loved.

 22. Honour is the reward of virtue.

 23. I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.

 24. If he applies The Eternal to himself his virtue will begenuine; If he applies it to his family his virtue will be abundant; If he applies it to his village his virtue will be lasting; If he applies it to his country his virtue will be full; If he applies it to the world his virtue will be universal.

 25. Innocence is always unsuspicious.

 26. Innocence is but a poor substitute for experience.

 27. Innocence is its own Defence.

 28. Innocence is like polished armour; it adorns and defends.

 29. INNOCENCE. Supreme success. Perseverance furthers. If someone is not as he should be, He has misfortune, And it does not further him To undertake anything.

 30. It has ever been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

 31. It is the edge and temper of the blade that make a good sword, not the richness of the scabbard; and so it is not money or possessions that make man considerable, but his virtue.

 32. Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

 33. Most people are so constituted that they can only be virtuous in a certain routine; an irregular course of life de-moralizes them.

 34. Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art.

 35. Nature has placed nothing so high that virtue can not reach it.

 36. No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.

 37. Of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.

 38. Of all the virtues necessary to the completion of the perfect man, there is none to be more delicately implied and less ostentatiously vaunted than that of exquisite feeling or universal benevolence.

 39. One should seek virtue for its own sake and not from hope or fear, or any external motive. It is in virtue that happiness consists, for virtue is the state of mind which tends to make the whole of life harmonious.

 40. One who is to enjoy the purity of both body and mind walks the path to enlightenment, breaking the net of selfish, impure thoughts and evil desires. He who is calm in mind acquires peacefulness and thus is able to cultivate his mind day and night with more diligence.

 41. One whose heart the holy forms Of young imagination have kept pure.

 42. Our life is short, but to expand that span to vast eternity is virtue's work.

 43. Our virtues and vices spring from one root.

 44. Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.

 45. Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.

 46. Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make happy, not gold.

 47. Riches adorn the dwelling; virtue adorns the person.

 48. Shall ignorance of good and ill dare to direct the eternal will? Seek virtue, and of that possest, To Providence resign the rest.

 49. Some people with great virtues are disagreeable, while others with great vices are delightful.

 50. Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

 51. Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man!

 52. That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue.

 53. The absence of temptation is the absence of virtue.

 54. The door to virtue... Heavy and hard to push.

 55. The fragrance of the flower is never borne against the breeze; but the fragrance of human virtue diffuses itself everywhere.

 56. The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.

 57. The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.

 58. The holy man, though he be distressed, Does not eat food mixed with wickedness. The lion, though hungry, Will not eat what is unclean.

 59. The Lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.

 60. The man of inferior virtue never loses sight of his virtue, and in this way he loses his virtue.

 61. The man of superior virtue is not conscious of his virtue, and in this way he really possesses virtue.

 62. The man who is not virtuous can never be happy.

 63. The most virtuous of all men is he that contents himself with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

 64. The only path to a tranquil life is through virtue.

 65. The only reward of virtue is virtue.

 66. The Saints are the Sinners who keep on trying.

 67. The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.

 68. The smallest speck is seen on snow.

 69. The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

 70. The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves, but who think others are.

 71. The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.

 72. There are some jobs in which it is impossible for a man to be virtuous.

 73. There is no ornament like virtue, There is no misery like worry, There is no protection like patience, There is no friend equal to generosity.

 74. There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship; and indeed friendship itself is only a part of virtue.

 75. There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that neither cities nor universities enjoy.

 76. They fulfil their vows and fear the day whose calamity shall be far-reaching; and in spite of their own want, they give food to the poor, and the orphan and the prisoner.

 77. They who disbelieve in virtue because man has never been found perfect, might as reasonably deny the sun because it is not always noon.

 78. This is the law of God, that virtue only is firm, and cannot be shaken by a tempest.

 79. Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

 80. To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.

 81. To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

 82. To produce things and to rear them, To produce, but not to take possession of them, To act, but not to rely on one's own ability. To lead them, but not to master them -This is called profound and secret virtue.

 83. To purify the heart is like the person ordered to uproot a tree. However much he reflects and struggles to do so, he is unable. So he says to himself, "I'll wait until I'm more powerful and then uproot it. "But the longer he waits and leaves the tree to grow, the larger and stronger it becomes while he only becomes weaker.

 84. True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

 85. Turn yourself not away from three best things: Good Thought, Good Word, and Good Deed.

 86. Virtue alone is the unerring sign of a noble soul.

 87. Virtue alone outbuilds the pyramids: Her monuments shall last, when Egypt's fall.

 88. Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.

 89. Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.

 90. Virtue cannot live in solitude: neighbours are sure to grow up around it.

 91. Virtue consisteth of three parts, - temperance, fortitude, and justice.

 92. Virtue consists in avoiding vice, and is the highest wisdom.

 93. Virtue has need of limits.

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

 95. Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul.

 96. Virtue is beauty.

 97. Virtue is but heroic bravery, to do the thing thought to be true, in spite of all enemies of flesh or spirit, in despite of all temptations or menaces.

 98. Virtue is everywhere the same, because it comes from God, while everything else is of men.

 99. Virtue is health, vice is sickness.

100. Virtue is insufficient temptation.

101. Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

102. Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.

103. Virtue is not hereditary.

104. Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.

105. Virtue is sufficient of herself for happiness.

106. Virtue is that perfect good which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality.

107. Virtue is the beauty, and vice the deformity, of the soul.

108. Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.

109. Virtue is the state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

110. Virtue knowing no base repulse, shines with untarnished honour; nor does she assume or resign her emblems of honour by the will of some popular breeze.

111. Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not enthralled; Yea, even that which mischief meant most harm Shall in the happy trial prove most glory.

112. Virtue often trips and falls on the sharp-edged rock of poverty.

113. Virtue, dear friend, needs no defence,The surest guard is innocence: None knew, till guilt created fear, What darts or poison'd arrows were.

114. Virtue, like health, is the harmony of the whole man.

115. Virtue, the strength and beauty of the soul, Is the best gift of Heaven: a happiness That even above the smiles and frowns of fate Exalts great Nature's favourites: a wealth That never encumbers, nor can be transferred.

116. Virtue: Climbing a hill Vice: Running down.

117. Virtues are acquired through endeavour, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.

118. We need greater virtues to sustain good fortune than bad.

119. With virtue you cannot be entirely poor...Without it you cannot be really rich.