Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.
John Milton

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.
Ovid

Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
Miguel De Cervantes

Virtue is the truest nobility.
Miguel De Cervantes

The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.
David Hume

Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.
David Hume

Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
Samuel Butler

A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
Samuel Butler

If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
Samuel Butler

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
Samuel Butler

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
Samuel Butler

In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.
Samuel Butler

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.
Lyman Abbott

Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
Lyman Abbott

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
Lyman Abbott

A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.
Edith Wharton

Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.
James Thurber

To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for.
Henry Van Dyke

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau