Virtues

Famous quotes containing the word virtues:

“Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.”
—William Golding (b. 1911)

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

“These are the arks, the trophies, I erect,
That fortify thy name against old age;
And these thy sacred virtues must protect
Against the dark and Time’s consuming rage.”
—Samuel Daniel (1562–1619)