The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

It is a hard thing to leave any deeply routined life, even if you hate it.

A very little key will open a very heavy door.

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.

It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights would be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in the Declaration of Independence. . . . I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.

I have met men who are habitual liars. They have lied so long that they no longer can distinguish between the truth and a lie. Their sensitivity to sin has been almost completely deadened.

With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide.

Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.

You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

What though strength fails? Boldness is certain to win praise. In mighty enterprises, it is enough to have had the determination.

It cannot be your duty to do anything that is beyond your reach or your strength at the moment. It cannot be your duty to do anything that sacrifices your own integrity or your own spiritual development.

Gentleness is strength under control. It is the ability to stay calm, no matter what happens.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

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.

Protecting your virtue you have to learn to say no.

Moral virtue is the child of habit.

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

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

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

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.