~Virtue.~--I willingly confess that it likes me better when I find virtue
in a fair lodging than when I am bound to seek it in an ill-favored
creature.--_Sir P. Sidney._
This is the tax a man must pay to his virtues--they hold up a torch to
his vices, and render those frailties notorious in him which would have
passed without observation in another.--_Colton._
True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our
virtues.--_Lamartine._
It would not be easy, even for an unbeliever, to find a better
translation of the rule of virtue from the abstract into the concrete,
than to endeavor so to live that Christ would approve our life.--_John
Stuart Mill._