ft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
--POPE.

Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but
forbidden because they are hurtful.--FRANKLIN.

VIRTUE.--Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs.--HELVETIUS.

Virtue alone is sweet society,
It keeps the key to all heroic hearts,
And opens you a welcome in them all.
--EMERSON.

The virtue of a man ought to be measured not by his extraordinary
exertions, but by his every-day conduct.--PASCAL.

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

Virtue maketh men on the earth famous, in their graves illustrious, in
the heavens immortal.--CHILD.

When we pray for any virtue, we should cultivate the virtue as well as
pray for it; the form of your prayers should be the rule of your
life.--JEREMY TAYLOR.

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our
natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.--SIR P. SIDNEY.

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

O let us still the secret joy partake,
To follow virtue even for virtue's sake.
--POPE.

Well may your heart believe the truths I tell;
'Tis virtue makes the bliss where'er we dwell.
--COLLINS.

The only impregnable citadel of virtue is religion; for there is no
bulwark of mere morality which some temptation may not overtop, or
undermine and destroy.--SIR P. SIDNEY.

Virtue is not to be considered in the light of mere innocence, or
abstaining from harm; but as the exertion of our faculties in doing
good.--BISHOP BUTLER.

What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy,
The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy,
Is virtue's prize.
--POPE.

Live virtuously, my lord, and you cannot die too soon, nor live too
long.--LADY RACHEL RUSSELL.

If you can be well without health, you can be happy without virtue.
--BURKE.

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

I would be virtuous for my own sake, though nobody were to know it; as
I would be clean for my own sake, though nobody were to see me.
--SHAFTESBURY.

Know then this truth, enough for man to know,
Virtue alone is happiness below.
--P