Horace Walpole Quotes

Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.

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

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

Men of most renowned virtue have by transgressing most truly kept the law.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better.

I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments.

The just man walks in his integrity

Worthy of honor is he who does no injustice, and more than twofold honor, if he not only does no injustice himself, but hinders others from doing any.

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

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.

Honesty: The ability to resist small temptations.

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

One of the standards on which your happiness is based, now and in your future, is moral purity.

To make your people understand what righteousness is, this must be the basis of all your teaching.

Be virtuous and you will be vicious.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

It is almost impossible to imagine that any one could be so insensible to the high morality of Mr. Mill's character as to suggest to him any course of conduct that was not entirely upright and consistent.