Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Virtue, like health, is the harmony of the whole 20 man. Carlyle.

Virtue may be stern, but never cruel, never inhuman. Schiller.

Virtue, not misery, is the appointed road to heaven. W. R. Greg.

Virtue often trips and falls on the sharp-edged rocks of poverty. Eugene Sue.

Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it. Saadi.

Virtue repulsed, yet knows not to repine, / 25 But shall with unattainted honour shine. Swift.

Virtue should be considered as a part of taste, and we should as much avoid deceit or sinister meanings in discourse as we would puns, bad language, or false grammar. (?)

Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen. Dickens.

Virtue that goes unrewarded is doubly beautiful. Seume.

Virtue that wavers is not virtue. Milton.