Perseverance is a virtue that cannot be understated..

Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues..

Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination..

Want of prudence is too frequently the want of virtue..

Virtue were a kind of misery if fame were all the garland that crowned her..

Want of punctuality is a want of virtue..

A man hasn't got a corner on virtue just because his shoes are shined..

But St. Aubert had too much good sense to prefer a charm to a virtue..

There is a mean in all things; even virtue itself has stated limits; which not being strictly observed, it ceases to be virtue..

How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!.

All great virtues become great men. [Fr., Toutes grandes vertus conviennent aux grands hommes.].

To become effective men of God, then, we must know and acknowledge that every grace and every virtue proceeds from God alone, and that not even a goo….

It is the admirer of himself, and not the admirer of virtue, that thinks himself superior to others..

no one ever gossips about the virtues of others.

Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here..

Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand..

Disobedience was man's Original Virtue..

Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy..

To exist is to be betrayed, since we exist for others only by virtue of what we betray of ourselves to them..

Personal virtue is no substitute for political hard-headedness..

Virtue consists in fleeing vice..