“People with virtue must speak out; People who speak are not all virtuous.”
“I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.”
“People who read D.H. Lawrence suspect that the forbidden is not necessarily without its virtue, and so are easily persuaded that the forbidden and the virtuous are one and the same.”
“One must get used to speaking of one’s virtues bravely, to people’s faces. Who is to know, if not we ourselves, to what degree we are good?”
“If you are going to be underestimated by people who speak more rapidly, the temptation is to speak slowly and strategically and outwit them.”
“You mean that people who continue virtuous in an old-fashioned way must inevitably suffer in times like these?”