We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
Your favorite virtue? An appreciation for irony.
You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.
The more we progress the more we tend to progress. We advance not in arithmetical but in geometrical progression. We draw compound interest on the whole capital of knowledge and virtue which has been accumulated since the dawning of time.
Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
To be evenminded is the greatest virtue. Wisdom is to speak the truth and act in keeping with its nature.
A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
Drink wine, drink poetry, drink virtue.
With wine, poetry, or virtue as you choose. But get drunk.
Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man’s own will.
No joy can equal the joy of serving others.
Lowliness is the base of every virtue, And he who goes the lowest builds the safest.
Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.
A virtue never tested is no virtue at all.
If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?
By virtue of Creation, and still more the Incarnation, nothing here below is profane for those who know how to see.
Integrity, the choice between what’s convenient and what’s right.