A loving mother makes sacrifices for peace and laughter to reign in her home and family.

Self-improvement is generally a removal of a vice rather than an acquisition of a virtue.

It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays

I cut an inch off of every straw I see, just to make the world suck a little less.


The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them

An exceptional woman with all the desired qualities exists only in a man's imagination.

Power does not justify sin. Power is not virtue. Virtue is that which lasts inspite of powe

I'd rather make a show 100 people need to see, than a show that 1000 people want to see.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer’s need.

I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.

Some men may be snared by beauty alone, but none can be held except by virtue and compliance.

What about the virtue of letting others be themselves? Is this not the greatest virtue of all?

We are double-edged blades and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice

The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.