iolence.--_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._

True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our
virtues.--_Lamartine._

It would not be easy, even for an unbeliever, to find a better
translation of the rule of virtue from the abstract into the concrete,
than to endeavor so to live that Christ would approve our life.--_John
Stuart Mill._

Most men admire virtue, who follow not her lore.--_Milton._

To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes
perfect virtue: these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity,
earnestness, and kindness.--_Confucius._

Of the two, I prefer those who render vice lovable to those who degrade
virtue.--_Joubert._

No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose
value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is
never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep
it.--_Colton._

Virtue can see to do what virtue would by her own radiant light, though
sun and moon were in the flat sea sunk.--_Milton._

Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary.--_Plato._

Virtue is a rough way but proves at night a bed of down.--_Wotton._

Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! virtue is at
hand.--_Confucius._

Virtues that shun the day and lie concealed in the smooth seasons and
the calm of life.--_Addison._

That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the
sentinel.--_Goldsmith._

Why expect that extraordinary virtues should be in one person united,
when one virtue makes a man extraordinary? Alexander is eminent for his
courage; Ptolemy for his wisdom; Scipio for his continence; Trajan for
his love of truth; Constantius for his temperance.--_Zimmermann._

Virtue dwells at the head of a river, to which we cannot get but by
rowing against the stream.--_Feltham._

Our virtues live upon our income, our vices consume our capital.--_J.
Petit Senn._

Wealth is a weak anchor, and glory cannot support a man; this is the law
of God,