“Let them recognize virtue and rot for having lost it.”

“That is not riches, which may be lost; virtue is our true good and the true reward of its possessor. That cannot be lost; that never deserts us, but when life leaves us. As to property and external riches, hold them with trembling; they often leave their possessor in contempt, and mocked at for having lost them.”

“In all her charms, set Virtue in their eye,
And let them see their loss, despair, and—die!”
Virtutem videant, intabescantque relicta.

“Let us never forget that if we wish to die like the Saints we must live like them. Let us force ourselves to imitate their virtues, in particular humility and charity.”

“Things that are separate shall be united and acquire such virtue that they will restore to man his lost memory.”

“Let us destroy, but don't let us pretend that we are commiting an act of virtue.”

“Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center and have to find it again.”

“Two very different virtues can attack one another long and viciously. But the time will come when they recognize that they are sisters.”

“Art is necessary in order that man should be able to recognize and change the world. But art is also necessary by virtue of the magic inherent in it.”

“Wicked people have nothing human about them except passions: they are almost their virtues.”