Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear.

There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.

Moral virtue is the child of habit.

If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh unless, since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience the injustice of our fellows.

We ought not to let either our joy at their faults or our grief at their success be idle, but in either case we ought to reflect, how we may become better than them by avoiding their errors, and by imitating their virtues not come short of them.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

Protecting your virtue you have to learn to say no.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.