| It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays.It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays. |
| Do not be troubled because you have not great virtues. God made a million spears of grass where He made one tree. The earth is fringed and carpeted, not with forests, but with grasses. Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero or a saint. |
| On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. |
| Unless I accept my faults I will most certainly doubt my virtues. |
| Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us. |
| To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them. |
| Sin is commitable in thought, word or deed; so is virtue. |
| What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy. |
| A man hasn't got a corner on virtue just because his shoes are shined. |
| The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues.You can't separate them. They're wedded. |