“He used to define justice as "a virtue of the soul distributing that which each person deserved."”

“Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.”

“Society should treat all equally well who have deserved equally well of it, that is, who have deserved equally well absolutely. This is the highest abstract standard of social and distributive justice; towards which all institutions, and the efforts of all virtuous citizens, should be made in the utmost degree to converge.”

“For knowledge to become wisdom, and for the soul to grow, the soul must be rooted in God: and it is through prayer that there comes to us that which is the strength of our strength, and the virtue of our virtue, the Holy Spirit.”

“Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.”

“Personal independence is a virtue and it is the soul out of which comes the sturdiest manhood. But there can be no independence without a large share of self-dependence, and this virtue cannot be bestowed. It must be developed from within.”

“The chief good he has defined to be the exercise of virtue in a perfect life.”

“Each of us deserves the freedom to pursue our own version of happiness. No one deserves to be bullied.”

“He is specially deserving of our hatred, in that being wicked he has all the outward signs of virtue.”

“Socrates and Jesus, two teachers of virtue and love, were executed because of the unsettling, threatening power of their souls, which was revealed in their personal lives and in their words.”