The home is the chief school of human virtues.

The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds as it amuses the fancy as it improves the understanding and as it strengthens virtue.

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues as disease is far more contagious than health.

If you can be well without health you may be happy without virtue.

With respect to the first of these obstacles it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists that they confine their attention to Wealth and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.

For Mythology is the handmaid of literature and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.

Virtue is simply happiness and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue and always an enemy to happiness.

I admit I can't shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering that there is a sort of psychic economy whereby if you embrace success happiness and comfort these things have to be paid for.