Alexander Hamilton Quotes

An honest man here lies at rest, the friend of man the friend of truth the friend of age and guide of youth. Few hearts like his with virtue warmed, few heads with knowledge so informed. If there's another world, he lives in bliss. If there is none, he made the best of this.

A learned person will become noble only when he or she has put into real practice what has been learned, instead of mere words.

Great hearts alone understand how much glory there is in being good.

Rising early and scorning laziness, remaining calm in time of strife, faultless in conduct and clever in actions. One like this will be praised.

If they are just, they are better than clever.

Virtue alone is the unerring sign of a noble soul.

Most men admire Virtue who follow not her lore.

When wisdom reaches the acme of perfection, it will suppress the vicious instincts and injurious desires.

Blest is he whose heart is the home of the great dead and their great thoughts.

Generosity, pleasing address, courage and propriety of conduct are not acquired, but are inbred qualities.

I want to identify what a genuine man does—the virtues, the habits, the disciplines, the duties, the actions of true manhood—and then call men to do it.

What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.

Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.

It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.

A fool has not stuff enough to make a good man.

What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence.

Virtue steals, like a guilty thing, into the secret haunts of vice and infamy, clings to their devoted victim, and will not be driven quite away. Nothing can destroy the human heart.

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

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

There has never been a man mean and at the same time virtuous.

True goodness is like the glow-worm in this, that it shines most when no eyes except those of heaven are upon it.

That wealth and greatness are often regarded with the respect and admiration which are due only to wisdom and virtue; and that the contempt, of which vice and folly are the only proper objects, is most often unjustly bestowed upon poverty and weakness, has been the complaint of moralists in all ages.

Right conduct can never, except by some rare accident, be promoted by ignorance or hindered by knowledge.