Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
~ Francis Bacon

Great necessities call out great virtues.
~ Abigail Adams

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.
~ Joseph Addison

A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.
~ Minna Antrim

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
~ Aristotle

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
~ Aristotle

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
~ Aristotle

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.
~ Natalie Clifford Barney

There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is a desire to climb higher; that of Satan, or animality, is delight in descent.
~ Charles Baudelaire

But do not let immorality or any impurity or greed even be named among you, as is proper among saints. [Ephesians 5:3]
~ Bible

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. [Galatians 5:23, 24]
~ Bible

For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.
~ Elizabeth Blackwell

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.
~ Christian Nevell Bovee

The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance.
~ Christian Nevell Bovee

The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
~ Francis H. Bradley

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
~ Edmund Burke

Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.
~ William S. Burroughs

If we've learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we cannot federalize virtue.
~ George Bush

A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
~ Samuel Butler

Rare virtues are like rare plants or animals, things that have not been able to hold their own in the world. A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.
~ Samuel Butler