“Constancy is the foundation of virtues”
“Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundations that underlies and gives reality to all other virtue and personal values. (p. 13)”
“self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.”
“...a friend of mankind with shaky moral foundation is a cannibal of mankind, to say nothing of his vainglory; insult the vainglory of one of these numberless friends of mankind, and he is ready at once to set fire to the four corners of the world out of petty vengence”
“To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.”