Virtues

Famous quotes containing the word virtues:

“If true that notion, which but few contest,
That in the way of wit short things are best,
Then in good epigrams two virtues meet,
For ‘tis their glory to be short and sweet.”
—Anonymous. From A Collection of Epigrams (1727)

“What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man’s virtues the means of deceiving him.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)