Virtues

Famous quotes containing the word virtues:

“There are good points about all such wars. People forget self. The virtues of magnanimity, courage, patriotism, etc., etc., are called into life. People are more generous, more sympathetic, better, than when engaged in the more selfish pursuits of peace.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

“But that which fairest is but few behold:
Her mind, adorned with virtues manifold.”
—Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599)

“Conquest is the missionary of valour, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)