“Why should there be some sort of virtue always attributed to a frank admission of vice?”

“Moderation in temper, is always a virtue; but moderation in principle, is a species of vice.”

“Why should we fear; and what? The laws?
They all are armed in virtue's cause;
And aiming at the self-same end,
Satire is always virtue's friend.”

“People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.”

“The most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men.”

“Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.”

“There is nothing serious in civil life except good and evil, vice and virtue. Everything else in it should be a game.”

“One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.”

“Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.”

“The Christian virtues inculcated by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount are nowhere exemplified in the Christian world... Meanwhile the vices which coarse-mouthed slanderers have attributed to Paganism, are current everywhere among Christian Fathers and Christian Churches.”