Benjamin Franklin Quotes

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

Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life leaves us.

Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful.

All great virtues become great men.

I love him who loveth his virtue: for virtue is the will to down-going, and an arrow of longing.

Virtue only is the true beauty.

Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.

Virtue alone is sufficient to make a man great, glorious, and happy.

Our good qualities expose us more to hatred and persecution than all the ill we do.

Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him to perform his function well.

Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality.

We have next to consider the formal definition of virtue.

Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul.

It is the property of a great and good mind to covet, not the fruit of good deeds, but good deeds themselves, and to seek for a good man even after having met with bad men.

Most men admire Virtue who follow not her lore.

Let thy virtue be too high for the familiarity of names, and if thou must speak of it, be not ashamed to stammer about it.

A man of character will make himself worthy of any position he is given.

He is not great who is not greatly good.

Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues.

Virtue has her heroes too As well as Fame and Fortune.

To know what virtue is is not enough; we must endeavor to possess and to practice it, or in some other manner actually ourselves to become good.

For as much as to understand and to be mighty are great qualities, the higher that they be, they are so much the less to be esteemed if goodness also abound not in the possessor.

True virtue, wheresoever it moves, still carries an intrinsic worth about it.

No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such