A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

I find distasteful the traditional idea of Christianity which preaches the resurrection of the body. Frankly, I see my body as more of a limitation than a virtue, and I will be glad to be free of it rather than having to continue to cart it around. I prefer to believe that souls can exist independently from bodies.

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.

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Recommend to your children virtues, that alone can make them happy, not gold.

Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.

Strive always to excel in virtue and truth.

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only of comfort.

The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.

Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.

To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.