Glare and glitter are manifest on all sides, but the domestic Virtues are little cultivated in any class of society, marriage being scarcely more than a matter of form, hardly ever one of sentiment.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
They win respect while they live, and white marble records their Virtues when they die!
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
When we say that Nature is not just, it comes to the same thing as saying that she takes no notice of our little Virtues; it is our vanity, not our sense of justice, that is wounded.
"Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck"
Jethro Bithell