Moral Virtue

Famous quotes containing the words moral and/or virtue:

“It is remarkable that among all the preachers there are so few moral teachers. The prophets are employed in excusing the ways of men.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem ... ridiculous.”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)