He lives in fame that died in virtue’s cause.

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

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.

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

Protecting your virtue you have to learn to say no.

Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Moral virtue is the child of habit.

Love means to love that which is unloveable. Otherwise it is no virtue at all.

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