The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.

Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.

If the highest things are unknowable then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim wisdom the source of virtue and of fame obtained with labour for mankind employed and then when most you share it best enjoyed.

Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom unless they teach virtue they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel.

However great an evil immorality may be we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.

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

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils for it is folly vice and madness without tuition or restraint.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation as regulated by wisdom.