Quotes

"In fine, nothing can contribute to true happiness that is inconsistent with duty; nor can a course of action, conformable to it, be finally without an ample reward. For God…

"It is sad that the Persians, in their ancient constitution, had public schools in which virtue was taught as a liberal art or science; and it is certainly of more…

"I believe long habits of virtue have a sensible effect on the countenance. There was something in the air of his [Cato's] face that manifested the true greatness of his…

"The almost general mediocrity of fortune that prevails in America obliging its people to follow some business for subsistence, those vices that arise usually from idleness are in a great…

"Without virtue, man can have no happiness in this world." —Benjamin Franklin, Smyth 2:94. (1728.)

"Let me add that only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." —Benjamin Franklin, Smyth 9:569. (1787.)

"The general natural tendency of reading good history must be to fix in the eyes of youth deep impressions of the beauty and usefulness of virtue of all kinds, public…

"Marriage, or a union of the sexes, though it be in itself one of the smallest societies, is the original fountain from whence the greatest and most extensive governments have…