Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

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

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

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

My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people so there's no virtue in that it's the way one is raised.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

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.

Love means to love that which is unlovable or it is no virtue at all.

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

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.