--CHAPIN.
Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,
As, to be hated, needs but to be seen;
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
--POPE.
Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but
forbidden because they are hurtful.--FRANKLIN.
VIRTUE.--Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs.--HELVETIUS.
Virtue alone is sweet society,
It keeps the key to all heroic hearts,
And opens you a welcome in them all.
--EMERSON.
The virtue of a man ought to be measured not by his extraordinary
exertions, but by his every-day conduct.--PASCAL.
Virtue consisteth of three parts,--temperance, fortitude, and
justice.--EPICURUS.
Virtue maketh men on the earth famous, in their graves illustrious, in
the heavens immortal.--CHILD.
When we pray for any virtue, we should cultivate the virtue as well as
pray for it; the form of your prayers should be the rule of your
life.--JEREMY TAYLOR.
To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our
natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.--SIR P. SIDNEY.
Virtue is everywhere the same, because it comes from God, while
everything else is of men.--VOLTAIRE.
O let us still the secret joy partake,
To follow virtue even for virtue's sake.
--POPE.
Well may your heart believe the truths I tell;
'Tis virtue makes the bliss where'er we dwell.
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