Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

It is a simple tale, but its message is an enduring one: virtue and generosity will be rewarded in ways that one cannot know.

Courage is the greatest virtue because it guarantees all the rest.

Tidiness is a virtue, symmetry is often a constituent of beauty.

How little can we foresee the consequences either of wise or unwise action, of virtue or of malice. Without this measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.