Part 101

Victory belongs to the most persevering.--Napoleon.

It is more difficult to look upon victory than upon battle.--Walter Scott.

~Villainy.~--Villainy, when detected, never gives up, but boldly adds impudence to imposture.--Goldsmith.

Villainy that is vigilant will be an overmatch for virtue, if she slumber at her post.--Colton.

~Violence.~--Nothing good comes of violence.--Luther.

Violence does even justice unjustly.--Carlyle.

Vehemence without feeling is rant.--H. Lewes.

~Virtue.~--I willingly confess that it likes me better when I find virtue in a fair lodging than when I am bound to seek it in an ill-favored creature.--Sir P. Sidney.

This is the tax a man must pay to his virtues--they hold up a torch to his vices, and render those frailties notorious in him which would have passed without observation in another.--Colton.

True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues.--Lamartine.

It would not be easy, even for an unbeliever, to find a better translation of the rule of virtue from the abstract into the concrete, than to endeavor so to live that Christ would approve our life.--John Stuart Mill.

Most men admire virtue, who follow not her lore.--Milton.

To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue: these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.--Confucius.

Of the two, I prefer those who render vice lovable to those who degrade virtue.--Joubert.

No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.--Colton.

Virtue can see to do what virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon were in the flat sea sunk.--Milton.

Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary.--Plato.

Virtue is a rough way but proves at night a bed of down.--Wotton.

Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! virtue is at hand.--Confucius.

Virtues that shun the day and lie concealed in the smooth seasons and the calm of life.--Addison.

That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel.--Goldsmith.

Why expect that extraordinary virtues should be in one person united, when one virtue makes a man extraordinary? Alexander is eminent for his courage; Ptolemy for his wisdom; Scipio for his continence; Trajan for his love of truth; Constantius for his temperance.--Zimmermann.

Virtue dwells at the head of a river, to which we cannot get but by rowing against the stream.--Feltham.

Our virtues live upon our income, our vices consume our capital.--J. Petit Senn.

Wealth is a weak anchor, and glory cannot support a man; this is the law of God, that virtue only is firm, and cannot be shaken by a tempest.--Pythagoras.

All bow to virtue and then walk away.--De Finod.

Virtue is an angel; but she is a blind one, and must ask of Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal. Mere knowledge, on the other hand, like a Swiss mercenary, is ready to combat either in the ranks of sin or under the banners of righteousness,--ready to forge cannon-balls or to print New Testaments, to navigate a corsair's vessel or a missionary ship.--Horace Mann.

~Vulgarity.~--The vulgarity of inanimate things requires time to get accustomed to; but living, breathing, bustling, plotting, planning, human vulgarity is a species of moral ipecacuanha, enough to destroy any comfort.--Carlyle.