Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes

In public life as in private life, a man of the very highest repute will occasionally go wrong..

We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.

Prudence is a quality incompatible with vice, and can never be effectively enlisted in its cause.

He, who practices right, but in the hope of acquiring great renown, is very near to vice.

... goodness is of a modest nature, easily discouraged, and when much elbowed in early life by unabashed vices, is apt to retire into extreme privacy, so that it is more easily believed in by those who construct a selfish old gentleman theoretically, than by those who form the narrower judgments based on his personal acquaintance.

But courage without conduct is the virtue of a robber, or a tyrant.

Virtue steals, like a guilty thing, into the secret haunts of vice and infamy, clings to their devoted victim, and will not be driven quite away. Nothing can destroy the human heart.

If you want to be good, all you've got to do is be good.

I believe in good, having morals, be a decent person.

Man is born with uprightness. If one loses it, he will be lucky if he escapes with his life.

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

You can be a virtuous person without faith in God.

A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.

Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.

Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Goodness is beauty in the best estate.

Elegance is inferior to virtue.

Bad company corrupts good character.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.

No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.

I have friends and family that are filled with massive amounts of integrity. And it shouldn't be an oddity.

Virtue is the truest nobility.