Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Beauty, Beautiful, Appreciation

• As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Adversity, Doe, Literature

• It is indeed a misfortune for a woman to be without beauty, as with men the eye is the chief arbiter of qualities in the sex. Her beauty is her capital--her worth in the market matrimonial depends upon it. With her the Virtues are less reverenced when unaccompanied by the Graces. The sex understand this very well; and hence they seek mainly to make captive the eye, knowing the mind and heart will follow as a matter of course.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Sex, Women, Heart

• Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, doubt (called by Galileo the father of invention), be in religion what the priests term it, the greatest of sins?

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Father, Philosophy, Doubt

• Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Friendship, Weakness, Virtue

• If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Virtue, Vicious, Virtuous

• Men were created for something better than merely to make money. A close application to business, until a competence is gained, is one of the chief virtues; but to continue in trade long after this result is obtained, is one of the signs, not to be mistaken, of a sordid and ignoble nature.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Money, Men, Long

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