Unwavering Virtue Quotes

You know Mildred would never do anything wrong or foolish. I reflected a little sadly that this was only too true and hoped I did not appear too much that kind of person to others. Virtue is an excellent thing and we should all strive after it, but it can sometimes be a little depressing.

Penn Cage I think of as annoyingly righteous sometimes. He's almost too good.

Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

Great occasions rouse even the lowest of human beings to some kind of greatness, but he alone is the really great man whose character is great always, the same wherever he be.

No virtue fades out of mankind. Not over-hopeful by inborn temperament, cautious by long experience, I yet never despair of human virtue.

Be dogmatically true, obstinately holy, immovably honest, desperately kind, fixedly upright.

Being a model to the world, eternal virtue will never falter in you, and you return to the boundless.

Virtue that wavers is not virtue, but vice revolted from itself, and after a while returning. The actions of just and pious men do not darken in their middle course.