Patience n. A minor form of dispair disguised as a virtue.

Nature who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues inspires now this impulse now that one in accordance with what she requires.

Virtue is a habit of the mind consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

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.

All the perplexities confusion and distress in America arise not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation not from want of honor or virtue so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin credit and circulation.

I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind.

Those who have virtue always in their mouths and neglect it in practice are like a harp which emits a sound pleasing to others while itself is insensible of the music.

Capital is money capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring or at the least lays golden eggs.

Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.