virtue, as I have already remarked, is not hereditary, neither is it perpetual.

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.

Virtue is a ray of the divine Beauty, in which we participate through our nature or through our will, with ease or with difficulty, but always by the grace of God.

Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.

Virtue is the conformity of the soul to the divine Model and to the spiritual work; conformity or participation. The essence of the virtues is emptiness before God, which permits the divine Qualities to enter the heart and radiate in the soul. Virtue is the exteriorization of the pure heart.

Virtue, my pet, is an abstract idea, varying in its manifestations with the surroundings. Virtue in Provence, in Constantinople, in London, and in Paris bears very different fruit, but is none the less virtue.

Virtue is the health of the soul.

Virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private.

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Virtues, n. pl. Certain abstentions.

As virtue is a thing that has no master, that is, is free, everything that is free will be united with virtue.

Virtue is health, vice is sickness.

Virtue consists in doing our duty in the several relations we sustain in respect to ourselves, to our fellow men, and to God, as known from reason, conscience, and revelation.