In the generality of men their virtues are nothing else but their vices at rest

Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave

Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages

If you are truly persevering in virtue, what is the place of a haughty attitude? The cow which has no milk will not be purchased, even though equipped with a pleasant-sounding bell

Virtue is like a rich stone, - best plain set

Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers

For policies, industries, strong towns, and fortifications, it is the mirror of virtue and the garden of Mars yea, and the light of all Europe, that he who hath exactly trod it may say he hath seen the map of the whole universe

Virtue is its own punishment

No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous

Our virtues are most often but our vices disguise