Victory may be honorable to the arms, but shameful to the counsels, of a nation.—Bolingbroke.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.—Napoleon.
It is more difficult to look upon victory than upon battle.—Walter Scott.
Villainy.—Villainy, when detected, never gives up, but boldly adds impudence to imposture.—Goldsmith.
Villainy that is vigilant will be an overmatch for virtue, if she slumber at her post.—Colton.
Violence.—Nothing good comes of violence.—Luther.
Violence does even justice unjustly.—Carlyle.
Vehemence without feeling is rant.—H. Lewes.
Virtue.—I willingly confess that it likes me better when I find virtue in a fair lodging than when I am bound to seek it in an ill-favored creature.—Sir P. Sidney.
This is the tax a man must pay to his virtues—they hold up a torch to his vices, and render those frailties notorious in him which would have passed without observation in another.—Colton.