Virtue

"I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man."

"The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith."

"Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference."

"It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge."

"I believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise."

"The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue."

"A man ought not to value himself of his achievements or rare qualities of wit, much less of his riches, virtue or kindred."

"Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved."

"Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition."

"Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important. Some confuse that feeling with idealism."

"Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality."

"There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent."