Owen Feltham Quotes

There is no greater wealth than Virtue,And no greater loss than to forget it.

To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue.

Integrity means always doing what is right and good, regardless of the immediate consequences.

In day-to-day life, you have stimulus to behave unethically, but in the long term, it always pays off to be ethical.

There is hardly that person to be found who is not more concerned for the reputation of wit and sense, than honesty and virtue.

It would be an unspeakable advantage, both to the public and private, if men would consider that great truth, that no man is wise or safe but he that is honest.

Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.

Character is in turn the enduring source of virtue. It stands by itself and excites admiration in others. It is not obedience to authority, and while it is often consistent with and reinforced by religious belief, it is not piety.

Honor is like the eye, which cannot suffer the least impurity without damage. It is a precious stone, the price of which is lessened by a single flaw.

Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of wickedness.

He cannot be vertuous that is not rigorous.

I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue.

A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.

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 man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart; his next, to escape the censures of the world: if the last interferes with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected; but otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see those approbations which it gives itself seconded by the applauses of the public.

If I am virtuous and worthy, for whom should I not maintain a proper concern?

Like all virtuous people he imagines he must speak the truth.

Nothing of character is really permanent but virtue and personal worth.

A man is not to aim at innocence, any more than he is to aim at hair, but he is to keep it.

True freedom is not the liberty to do anything we please, but the liberty to do what we ought; and it is genuine liberty because doing what we ought now pleases us

A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.

Man is born for uprightness. If a man lose his uprightness and yet live, his escape from death is mere good fortune.

The honest Man takes Pains, and then enjoys Pleasures; the knave takes Pleasure, and then suffers Pains.