We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice. – Henry David Thoreau Category: Virtue
Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. – Francis Bacon Category: Virtue
Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderated use rather than total abstinence. – Samuel Butler Category: Virtue
Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man. – James Thurber Category: Truth
I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet. – Mahatma Gandhi Category: Attitude
There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament. – Henry Van Dyke Category: Charm
