| 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. |
| All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance. |
| Virtue is its own revenge. |
| Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself. |
| Modesty and unselfishness - these are virtues which men praise and pass by. |
| He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place. |