Joseph Addison Quotes

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

A man's virtue is best secured by shame, and best improved by emulation in the society of virtuous men.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.

I choose goodness... I will go without a dollar before I take a dishonest one. I will be overlooked before I will boast. I will confess before I will accuse. I choose goodness.

A man must not be without shame, for the shame of being without shame is shamelessness indeed.

Good men do not always have grace and favor, lest they should be puffed up, and grow insolent and proud.

Without virtue it is difficult to bear gracefully the honors of fortune.

Honor is decency without vanity.

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

A blush is the sign which Nature hangs out to show where chastity and honor dwell.

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

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.

Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.

Virtue is the truest nobility.

Tell the truth and shame the devil.

If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Modesty is the color of virtue.

Though I be poor, I'm honest.

Honor is the reward of virtue.

The object of the superior man is truth.

It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue.

Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.