Virtue Ⅱ
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
—William Shakespeare (1564-1616 British playwright and poet)
To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
—John Ruskin (1819-1900 British writer and art critic)
We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
—George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950 British playwright)
He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world.
—George Herbert (1593-1633 British priest and poet)
Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
—Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899 American politician)
Physical bravery is an animal instinct, moral bravery is a much higher and truer courage.
—Stephen Phillips (1868-1915 British poet and dramatist)
Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
—Vittorio Alfieri (1749-1803 Italian dramatist and poet)
It is always time to do good.
—Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931 American poet)
People must help one another; it is nature’s law.
—Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695 French fabulist)
True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one’s own the suffering and joys of others.
—Andre Paul Guillaume Gide (1869-1951 French novelist and essayist)
The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.
—Homer (9th Century B.C. Greek poet)
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862 American author)
He that does good for good’s sake seeks neither praise nor reward, though sure of both at last.
—William Penn (1644-1718 British philosopher)
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
—Mother Teresa (1910-1997 Indian Roman Catholic nun)
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
—Sir John Frederick William Herschel (1792-1871 British astronomer)