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.

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.

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us all that gives value to life we owe to it pity we owe to it courage we owe to it all the virtues.

The strangest most generous and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Courage is the greatest of all virtues because if you haven't courage you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

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.

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