If you can be well without health, you can be happy without virtue. --BURKE.
Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make happy, not gold.--BEETHOVEN.
I would be virtuous for my own sake, though nobody were to know it; as I would be clean for my own sake, though nobody were to see me. --SHAFTESBURY.
Know then this truth, enough for man to know, Virtue alone is happiness below. --POPE.
An effort made with ourselves for the good of others, with the intention of pleasing God alone.--BERNARDIN DE ST. PIERRE.
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.
Our virtues live upon our incomes; our vices consume our capital. --J. PETIT-SENN.
Do not be troubled because you have not great virtues. God made a million spears of grass where he made one tree. The earth is fringed and carpeted, not with forests, but with grasses. Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a saint.--BEECHER.
WANT.--How few our real wants, and how vast our imaginary ones!--LAVATER.
We are ruined, not by what we really want, but by what we think we do; therefore never go abroad in search of your wants; if they be real wants, they will come home in search of you; for he that buys what he does not want, will soon want what he cannot buy.--COLTON.
Where necessity ends, curiosity begins; and no sooner are we supplied with everything that nature can command, than we sit down to contrive artificial appetites.--DR. JOHNSON.
Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste.--SPURGEON.
Constantly choose rather to want less, than to have more.--THOMAS À KEMPIS.
Every one is the poorer in proportion as he has more wants, and counts not what he has, but wishes only what he has not.--MANILIUS.
If any one say that he has seen a just man in want of bread, I answer that it was in some place where there was no other just man. --ST. CLEMENT.
It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.--FIELDING.
WAR.--War will never yield but to the principles of universal justice and love; and these have no sure root but in the religion of Jesus Christ.--CHANNING.