Henry David Thoreau Virtue Quotations

What men call social virtue, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other warm

In the winter, warmth stands for all virtue.

What is chastity? How shall a man know if he is chaste? He shall not know it. We have heard of this virtue, but we know not what it is.

In ancient days the Pythagoreans were used to change names with each other,--fancying that each would share the virtues they admired in the other.

I never was so rapid in my virtue but my vice kept up with me.

There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.

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

The virtue which we appreciate, we to some extent appropriate.

The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.

We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue.

The virtue of making two blades of grass grow where only one grew before does not begin to be superhuman.

The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur.