Teach you children poetry it opens the mind lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time be ceaselessly drunk. On wine on poetry or on virtue as you wish.

It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time get drunk get drunk without stopping! On wine on poetry or on virtue as you wish.

Peace is not the absence of war but a virtue based on strength of character.

For peace is not mere absence of war but is a virtue that springs from a state of mind a disposition for benevolence confidence justice.

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

Peace is not an absence of war it is a virtue a state of mind a disposition for benevolence confidence justice.

We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us.

Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue where patience honor sweet humility and calm fortitude take root and strongly flourish.

Patience the beggar's virtue shall find no harbor here.

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.

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.