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"The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil."
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"She had received ideas which disposed her to be courteous and kind to all, and to pity every one, as being less happy than herself."
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"To have mercy and truth requires love, good understanding and respect."
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"In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa."
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"Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world."
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"Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set."
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"It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue."
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"Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them."
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"The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort."
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"No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it."
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"Long-suffering is the greatest life survival virtue."
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"Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents."
Attention
"A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted."
Nation
"The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross."
Friendship
"The main peculiarity which distinguishes man from other animals is the means of his support-the power which he possesses of very greatly increasing these means."
Power
"The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice."
Power
"The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes."
Mankind
"A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him."
Man
"The great and unlooked for discoveries that have taken place of late years have all concurred to lead many men into the opinion that we were touching on a period big with the most important changes."
Man
"No limits whatever are placed to the productions of the earth; they may increase forever."
Earth
"Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio."
Population
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