But everyone's an expert with the virtue of hindsight . . . ..

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices..

There are not many beginnings but there is a single Beginning, prior to multitude. But if you were to say that the beginnings are plural apart from t….

True virtue is life under the direction of reason..

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself..

Nobody likes to be accused of a virtue..

It's a sad thing about politics that most people get power too late, in that they differ from ladies of easy virtue who get their pleasures too early..

Tenderness is a virtue..

You will find the Americans much as the Greeks found the Romans: great, big, vulgar, bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle, wi….

The loftiest in status are those who do not know their own status, and the most virtuous of them are those who do not know their own virtue..

The greatest single virtue of a strong legislature is not what it can do, but what it can prevent..

[A] free government . . . cannot be supported without Virtue..

In regard to intellect and true virtue, every nation is on a par with the rest, and God has not in these respects chosen one people rather than anoth….

No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue; Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest Save he who courts the flattery..

The virtue of the country is that it makes you thirsty for the city..

To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue..

Virtue has needs of limits..

Virtue is necessary to a republic..

Without courage, all other virtues are useless..

Chastity, like honesty, is a civic as well as a personal virtue. When a society loses chastity, it begins to destroy itself..

Things that are separate shall be united and acquire such virtue that they will restore to man his lost memory..