“Yet should there hover in their restless heads
One thought, one grace, one wonder at the least,
Which into words no virtue can digest.”

“Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet

“Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.”

Diogenes of Sinope (-404–-322 BC) ancient Greek philosopher, one of the founders of the Cynic philosophy

“When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.”

Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) Russian dramatist, author and physician

“The grace of God is the thing that is needful. One should pray for the grace of God.”

Sarada Devi (1853–1920) Hindu religious figure, spiritual consort of Ramakrishna

“In debate, one randomly was assigned to one side or the other. This had at least one virtue — it made one see that there was more than one side to these complex issues.”

Joseph E. Stiglitz (1943) American economist and professor, born 1943.

“Christ Himself has said: “They are no longer two, but they are one flesh” (Matt. 19:6). Is it strange then, if they are one flesh, that they should have one tongue and should say the same words, since they are one flesh, Head and body? Let us therefore hear them as one. But let us listen to the Head speaking as Head, and to the body speaking as the body. We do not separate the two realities, but two different dignities; for the Head saves, and the body is saved.”

Aurelius Augustinus (354–430) early Christian theologian and philosopher

“In truth, O judges, while I wish to be adorned with every virtue, yet there is nothing which I can esteem more highly than being and appearing grateful. For this one virtue is not only the greatest, but is also the parent of all the other virtues.”
Etenim, iudices, cum omnibus virtutibus me adfectum esse cupio, tum nihil est quod malim quam me et esse gratum et videri. Haec enim est una virtus non solum maxima sed etiam mater virtutum omnium reliquarum.

Marcus Tullius Cicero Pro Plancio

“One wondering thought pollutes the day”

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus

“Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby