Pastoral Resources

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

If that form of government, that system of social order is not wrong - if those laws of the Southern States, by virtue of which slavery exists there, and is what it is, are not wrong - nothing is wrong.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.

Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.

It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.

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

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.

Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.

I'd like to know what law is it that says that a woman is a better parent, simply by virtue of her sex.

Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.

Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.