From faith hope and love the virtues of religion referring to God there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us the hearing of the word and prayer.

Faith is the virtue by which clinging-to the faithfulness of God we lean upon him so that we may obtain what he gives to us.

Faith is the sense of life that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue but more frequently of her experience.

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

In a state therefore of great equality and virtue where pure and simple manners prevailed the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known.

Again it may be said that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue it is sufficient that they love themselves.