Virtues are acquired through endeavor which rests wholly upon yourself.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next virtue is doing it.

Britain which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed is now being bombed and burned into democracy.

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

Vice stirs up war virtue fights.

Virtue is a state of war and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

Justice is rather the activity of truth than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth as to neglect the needful duties of active life for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

When virtue is lost benevolence appears when benevolence is lost right conduct appears when right conduct is lost expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth it is the beginning of disorder.