Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically but nothing consistently without courage.

Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other the best are not only the happiest but the happiest are usually the best.

Virtue is like a rich stone best plain set.

Being forced to work and forced to do your best will breed in you temperance and self-control diligence and strength of will cheerfulness and content and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

For when with beauty we can virtue join We paint the semblance of a form divine.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.