The cardinal virtue of a teacher [is] to protect the pupil from his own influence..

Vaisey looked like a startled earwig..

When much virtue is achieved, nothing is not overcome..

I prefer true over happy now..

Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing..

The more we progress the more we tend to progress. We advance not in arithmetical but in geometrical progression. We draw compound interest on the wh….

By poeticizing love, we imagine in those we love virtues that they often do not possess; this then becomes the source of constant mistakes and consta….

The more tickets you have in a lottery, the worse your chance. And it is the same of virtues, in the lottery of life..

The greatest virtue is to follow the Way utterly..

Hope is a horrible thing, you know. I don't know who decided to package hope as a virtue because it's not. It's a plague. Hope is like walking around….

Death--some form of termination--is the universal ending of all living things; but only man, by virtue of his verbally reportable introspective life,….

Remind oneself continually of one of those who practiced virtue in days gone by..

Evil was seductive and easy, and virtue was difficult and unappreciated..

PILLORY, n. A mechanical device for inflicting personal distinction - prototype of the modern newspaper conducted by persons of austere virtues and b….

Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it..

Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are even our acts..

I've got forward momentum. There's no virtue in it. It's just a balancing act. I don't dare stop..

A man must commit a crime at least once in his life-time. Only then will his virtue be recognized.

Lofty souls are always inclined to make a virtue of misfortune..

The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint..

Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue..