“A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.”
Joseph Addison
“A man's virtue is not measured by who he is, but rather by what he does”
Emanouhl
“Virtue has never been as respectable as money”
Mark Twain
“Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.”
William Hazlitt
“For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred; nor can I detach one duty, like you, from all other duties, and concentrate my forces mechanically on the payment of moneys”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices”
Benjamin Franklin
