Benjamin H. Hill Quotes

There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.

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

Did it ever strike you that goodness is not merely a beautiful thing, but by far the most beautiful thing in the whole world? So that nothing is to be compared for value with goodness; that riches, honor, power, pleasure, learning, the whole world and all in it, are not worth having in comparison with being good; and the utterly best thing for a person is to be good, even though they were never to be rewarded for it.

There is no real excellence in all of this world which can be separated from right living.

God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones.

No speech can stain what is noble by nature.

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.

I like people to be saints; but I want them to be first and superlatively honest men.

There is but on virtue--the eternal sacrifice of self.

Therefore, the truly great man, although he does not injure others, does not credit himself with charity and mercy (these are natural to him). He does not seek gain, but does not despise his followers who do. He struggles not for wealth, but does not take credit for leaving it alone... The ranks and emoluments of the world are to him no cause for joy, it's punishments and shame no cause for disgrace.

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station.

Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.

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

Selflessness. Humility. Truthfulness. These are the three marks of an honorable man.

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.

A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.

Wherever valor true is found, true modesty will there abound.

A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.