William Gilmore Simms Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• The amiable is a duty most certainly, but must not be exercised at the expense of any of the virtues. He who seeks to do the amiable always, can only be successful at the frequent expense of his manhood.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Success, Men, Virtue

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.24

• Tact is one of the first of mental virtues, the absence of which is frequently fatal to the best of talents. Without denying that it is a talent of itself, it will suffice if we admit that it supplies the place of many talents.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Firsts, Talent, Virtue

  "Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside".

• Modesty is policy, no less than virtue.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Modesty, Virtue, Policy

• Our cares are the mothers, not only of our charities And virtues, but of our best joys and most cheering and enduring pleasures.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Mother, Cheer, Worry

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.29

• It is a bird-flight of the soul, when the heart declares itself in song. The affections that clothe themselves with wings are passions that have been subdued to virtues.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Music, Song, Passion

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.22

• What we call vice in our neighbor may be nothing less than a crude virtue. To him who knows nothing more of precious stones than he can learn from a daily contemplation of his breastpin, a diamond in the mine must be a very uncompromising sort of stone.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Precious Stones, Vices, May

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.210

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