Our virtues are most frequently but vices in disguise.

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.

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

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

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

Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.

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

To be able to practice five things everywhere under the heaven constitutes perfect virtue. . . gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.