Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.

The moral virtues then are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature indeed prepares in us the ground for their reception but their complete formation is the product of habit.

Choose silence of all virtues for by it you hear other men's imperfections and conceal your own.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

Love is the expression of one's values the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.

If you wish to be loved show more of your faults than your virtues.

The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel full of the knowledge of God of examples of virtues and of correction of vices of the end of this life and of the life to come.

One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.

The home is the chief school of human virtues.

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.