Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.

Virtue alone has majesty in death.

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.

Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.

Virtue can only flourish among equals.

In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.

Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.

The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society.

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.