I would say that by virtue of your not acting parental up to this point, you've relinquished your ability to wield any power now. Sam and I are toget….

Faith is one of those words that connotes, however irrationally, some kind of virtue in itself..

We don't choose what's going to wake us up..

Forgiveness frees the forgiver..

People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues..

War is one of the nation's most honored virtues, and its militaristic values now bear down on almost every aspect of American life..

It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced..

As the love of the heavens makes us heavenly, the love of virtue virtuous, so doth the love of the world make one become worldly..

I am no herald to inquire into men's pedigree; it sufficeth me if I know their virtues..

I willingly confess that it likes me better when I find virtue in a fair lodging than when I am bound to seek it in an ill-favored creature..

In the truly great, virtue governs with the sceptre of knowledge..

Empathy is the greatest virtue. From it, all virtues flow. Without it, all virtues are an act..

True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods..

Tolerance is not really a lived virtue; it’s more of a cerebral ascent..

Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess? Do they call virtue there ungratefulness?.

The virtues of society are the vices of the saints..

Men are almost always cruel in their neighbors' faults; and make others' overthrow the badge of their own ill-masked virtue..

Courage is the most common and vulgar of the virtues..

You have to live a life to become a writer..

There is hardly that person to be found who is not more concerned for the reputation of wit and sense, than honesty and virtue..

Just as riches are an impediment to virtue in the wicked, so in the good they are an aid of virtue..