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.

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.

I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background.

No power in society no hardship in your condition can depress you keep you down in knowledge power virtue influence but by your own consent.

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Here again as I conceive gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People.

Republics are created by the virtue public spirit and intelligence of the citizens. They fall when the wise are banished from the public councils because they dare to be honest and the profligate are rewarded because they flatter the people in order to betray them.

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

While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor admired his uncommon virtue and were moved by his remarkable wisdom.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles the character of an honest man.

The home is the chief school of human virtues.

The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds as it amuses the fancy as it improves the understanding and as it strengthens virtue.

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

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.

If you can be well without health you may be happy without virtue.

With respect to the first of these obstacles it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists that they confine their attention to Wealth and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.