People praise virtue but they hate it they run away from it. It freezes you to death and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.

Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.

There is a measure needing courage to adopt and enforce it which I believe to be of virtue sufficient to redeem the nation in this its darkest hour: one only I know of no other to which we may rationally trust for relief from impending dangers without and within.

An able disinterested public-spirited press with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.

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

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

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.

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue courage is only the second virtue.

One isn't necessarily born with courage but one is born with potential. Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind true merciful generous or honest.

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.

Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.

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

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other the best are not only the happiest but the happiest are usually the best.

Virtue is like a rich stone best plain set.

Being forced to work and forced to do your best will breed in you temperance and self-control diligence and strength of will cheerfulness and content and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

For when with beauty we can virtue join We paint the semblance of a form divine.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.

What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love truth virtue and beauty.

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.