It is not enough to say to the citizens, be good ; they must be taught to be so; and even example, which is in this respect the first lesson, is not the sole means to be employed; patriotism is the most efficacious: for, as I have said already, every man is virtuous when his particular will is in all things conformable to the general will, and we voluntarily will what is willed by those whom we love.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

For life is not the same thing as virtue, since not every life, but a wisely regulated life, is virtue; and yet, while there can be life of some kind without virtue, there cannot be virtue without life.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Here she obtained it, and of course was at once of her husband's opinion; she found Lars incomprehensible, not to say wicked.
— from Arne; Early Tales and Sketches Patriots Edition by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

My end in writing these few lines is not to set up man, but having had experience with many other saints of this man's soundness in the faith, of his godly conversation, and his ability to preach the gospel, not by human art, but by the Spirit of Christ, and that with much success in the conversion of sinners when there are so many carnal empty preachers, both learned and unlearned; I say having had experience of this, and judging this book may be profitable to many others, as well as to myself: I thought it my duty upon this account (though I be very unfit for it) to bear witness with my brother to the plain and simple (and yet glorious) truths of our Lord Jesus Christ.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

The ideal for life is not the suppression, but the consecration, of material satisfactions and pleasures of appetite.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. Luke by Alexander Maclaren

But unfortunately the farm labourer is not the sole offender, as the history of the introduction of mechanism of any kind will tell.
— from The Khedive's Country by George Manville Fenn

When, at the age of fifteen, he went with his mother to Paris, he passed fine examinations for entrance to the French Conservatory and learned the French language in no time, so as to understand the teachers and lecturers.
— from The Child's Book of American Biography by Mary Stoyell Stimpson

She shall find that Frank Lara is not the sort of man to let one of womankind either laugh at, or play tricks with him.”
— from The Flag of Distress: A Story of the South Sea by Mayne Reid

If they were pleased with each other at that time then they continued together for life; if not, they separated, and were free to make another choice as at the first.”
— from Folk-lore of Shakespeare by T. F. (Thomas Firminger) Thiselton-Dyer