The true ornament of matrons is virtue, not apparel. - Justin.

Virtue must be asked at any cost and with importunity; prosperity, timidly and with resignation. To ask is to receive, when true riches are sought. - Joubert.

Virtue is like the polar star, which keeps its place, and all stars turn towards it.-Confucius.

VIRTUE.

The virtues are natural to all. Seek, and you will find them; neglect, and you will lose them. Mencius.

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Virtue is an angel; but she is a blind one, and must ask of Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.- Horace Mann. Our virtues and vices spring from one root.

Goethe.

Most men admire virtue, who follow not her lore. - Milton.

It would not be easy, even for an unbeliever, to find a better translation of the rule of virtue from the abstract into the concrete, than to endeavor so to live that Christ would approve our life.-J. Stuart Mill.

It is easier to be virtuous than it is to appear so, and it pays better. H. W. Shaw. It is easy to be virtuous in prospective. — J. Petit-Senn. Beware of the virtue which a man boasts is his. Marie Ebner-Eschenbach.

Thus, no virtue can be real until it has been tried. The gold in the crucible alone is perfect; the loadstone tests the steel; and the diamond is tried by the diamond, while true metals gleam the brighter in the furnace.

Calderon.

That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another's. We see so much only as we possess. Thoreau.

Integrity of life is fame's best friend.

John Webster.

"Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell. Collins.

. From this inward esteem for virtue, which the noblest cherish, and which the basest cannot expel, it follows that virtue is the only bond of union on which we can thoroughly depend. Even differences of opinion on minor points cannot shake those combinations which have virtue for their foundation and truth for Marie Ebner-Eschenbach. their end. - Colton.

Even virtue is an art; and even its devotees are divided into those who practise it and those who are merely amateurs.

Verily, virtue must be her own reward, as in the Socratic creed; for she will bring no other My heart laments that virtue cannot live out dower than peace of conscience in her gift to of the teeth of emulation. - Shakspeare.

Our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues. — Shakspeare. But virtue too, as well as vice, is clad in flesh and blood. · Waller.

O virtue! virtue! as thy joys excel, so are thy woes transcendent; the gross world knows not the bliss or misery of either. - Thomson.

'Tis virtue which they want; and, wanting it, honor no garment to their backs can fit. Ben Jonson.

Remember all his virtues, and show mankind that goodness is your care. Addison.

Good sense, good health, good conscience, and good fame, all these belong to virtue, and all prove that virtue has a title to your love.

Cowper. Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed as an instrument, in the same way as genius in respect to art. It would be as foolish to expect that our moral and ethical systems would turn out virtuous, noble, and holy beings, as that our æsthetic systems would produce poets, painters, and musicians.

Schopenhauer.

Of the two, I prefer those who render vice lovable to those who degrade virtue. - Joubert.

Virtue is the beauty of the soul. - Socrates.

The people's voice is odd; it is, and it is not,

Vivacity in youth is often mistaken for the voice of God. genius, and solidity for dulness.

Colton.

Every man has his own vocation. There is one direction in which all space is open to him. He has faculties silently inviting him thither to endless exertion. He is like a ship in a river; he runs against obstructions on every side but one; on that side all obstruction is taken away, and he sweeps serenely over a deepening channel into an infinite sea. · Emerson.

- Pope.

In the social circle, how pleasant it is to hear a woman talk in that low key which always characterizes the true lady!- Lamb.

Rousseau calls the human voice the warder of the mind. - N. P. Willis.

Thy voice is a celestial melody.

Longfellow.

Her voice was ever soft, gentle, and low, Shakspeare. an excellent thing in woman.

How sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman! It is so seldom heard that when it - Massinger.

Why, Hal, 't is my vocation, Hal; 't is no sin speaks, it ravishes all senses.
My heart leaps at the trumpet's voice. —

for a man to labor in his vocation.

Shakspeare.

The highest excellence is seldom attained in more than one vocation. - Bovée.

Of all paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path for every man, a thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do; which, could he but be led or driven to do, he were then doing like a man, as we phrase it. His success, in such a case, were complete, his felicity a maximum. Carlyle.

Addison.

Vulgarity is disenchantment; all charms pale before it. — Mme. Bachi.

A rank soil, nay, a dunghill, will produce beautiful flowers. - Boswell.

Success will popularize the grossest vulgarity.
Alfred Bougeart.

A vulgar man is captious and jealous and impetuous about trifles. He suspects himself to be slighted, and thinks everything that is said is meant for him. Byron. Chesterfield.