Justice prevails over transgression when she comes to the end of the race.
How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue!
Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
The gods, as they are beneficent, if they find anyone who is healthy and whole and unscarred by vice, will send him away, surely, after crowning him, not with golden crowns, but with all sorts of blessings.
I believe in Providence and I believe Providence to be just. Therefore I believe that Providence always rewards the strong, the industrious, and the upright.
God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice, either here or hereafter.
And Heaven, that every virtue bears in mind, E'en to the ashes of the just is kind.
The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them.
Who sows virtue reaps honor.
The English Writers of Tragedy are possessed with a Notion, that when they represent a virtuous or innocent Person in Distress, they ought not to leave him till they have delivered him out of his Troubles, or made him triumph over his Enemies.
A good deed never goes unpunished.
The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven.
There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.
If you do right, things come out right.
