The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.

Manners are like the shadows of virtues they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.

Teach you children poetry it opens the mind lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

Nature who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues inspires now this impulse now that one in accordance with what she requires.

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.

The moral virtues then are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature indeed prepares in us the ground for their reception but their complete formation is the product of habit.

Choose silence of all virtues for by it you hear other men's imperfections and conceal your own.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

If you wish to be loved show more of your faults than your virtues.

The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel full of the knowledge of God of examples of virtues and of correction of vices of the end of this life and of the life to come.

One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.

The home is the chief school of human virtues.

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues as disease is far more contagious than health.

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others but only those who have greater designs.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness it certainly destroys liberty and it makes some virtues impracticable and others extremely difficult.

You have a good many little gifts and virtues but there is no need of parading them for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long and the great charm of all power is modesty.

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.

The virtues like the Muses are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

When women love us they forgive us everything even our crimes when they do not love us they give us credit for nothing not even our virtues.

From faith hope and love the virtues of religion referring to God there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us the hearing of the word and prayer.

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.