Rutherford B. Hayes Quotes

If you would not step into the harlot's house, do not go by the harlot's door.

Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.

Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.

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

The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.

Abstinence from sins is better than seeking help afterwards.

Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.

Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.

The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.

No speech can stain what is noble by nature.

Only the actions of the just, Smell sweet and blossom in their dust.

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

It's impossible to speak what it is not noble to do.

When God calls a man to be upright and pure and generous, he also calls him to be intelligent and skillful, and strong and brave.

Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.

The just man walks in his integrity

The ruler should understand that he must not covet the wives of other men and be content with personally refraining from injustice

I myself have constantly refused to print anything that might countenance vice or promote immorality, though … I might have gotten much money.

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

Indulgence in frivolous speech not only reveals one's lack of moral character, but it deprives him of good qualities also.

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

We should be living a life of purity.

Grace is the mother and nurse of holiness, and not the apologist of sin.

What is chastity? How shall a man know if he is chaste? He shall not know it. We have heard of this virtue, but we know not what it is.

An honest man is strange when he is among dishonest men, but it is a good kind of strangeness.