Anger is a noble infirmity the generous failing of the just the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

He is his own best friend, and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine actions than in the nonperformance of base ones

I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle

It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say,I was wrong

In marriage do thou be wise prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty.