I like my clients. All of my clients say, "Peter. You're talented. But, your best virtue is your discretion. " They really don't want to be talked about.
The time has arrived when patience becomes a crime and mayhem appears garbed in a manner of virtue
The only path to a tranquil life is through virtue. [Lat. , Semita certe Tranquillae per virtutem patet unica vitae. ]
You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger. Cheerful endurance of hardships and contempt of surroundings become a virtue in a pioneer. Comfort is a comparatively new thing in the United States.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Virtue, opening heaven to those who do not deserve to die, makes her course by paths untried. [Lat. , Virtus, recludens immeritis mori Coelum, negata tentat iter via. ]
The first contributing factor to a happy home is the sublime virtue of loyalty, one of the noblest attributes of the human soul.
There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.
Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.
Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself.
Virtue is the only and true nobility. [Lat. , Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus. ]
Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.
Men must sweat to attain virtue.
For virtue is a light and buoyant thing, and all who live in her way fly like clouds as Isaiah says, and as doves with their young ones; but sin is a heavy affair, as another of the prophets says, sitting upon a talent of lead.
Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
There is nothing meritorious but virtue and friendship.
Silence is a virtue in those who are deficient in understanding.
Without constancy there is neither love, friendship, nor virtue in the world.
Get money first; virtue comes after.