“Virtue - even attempted virtue - brings light; indulgence brings fog.”

“Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality. ”

“It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.”

“You cannot be kind unless you have all the other virtues.”

“A great human philosopher nearly let our secret out when he said that where virtue is concerned, "Experience is the mother of illusion.”

“Plato rightly taught that virtue is one. You cannot be kind unless you have all the other virtues. If, being cowardly, conceited, and slothful, you have never yet done a fellow creature great mischief, that is only because your neighbour's welfare has not yet happened to conflict with your safety, self-approval, or ease. Every vice leads to cruelty.”

“The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back, time after time, to the old simple principles which we are all so anxious not to see; like bringing a horse back and back to the fence it has refused to jump or bringing a child back to a lesson that it wants to shirk.”