“Patience is a virtue,Virtue is a grace.Grace is a little girlWho would not wash her face.”

“I do not blench at nature red in tooth and claw... And much as I love The Wind in the Willows and the works of Beatrix Potter, I never dress my animals in clothes... They behave as animals should behave, with the exception that they open their mouths and speak the Queen's English.”

“Yet all we had was here and now, and here and now was always where the struggle toward goodness had to be fought. Toward virtue, morality, uprightness, order: call it what one liked. A long ever-recurring battle.”

“What a paragon of virtue you are, gunslinger!" the man in black laughed.”

“Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.”

“Marriage is the preserver of the human race. Without it, the purposes of God would be frustrated; virtue would be destroyed to give place to vice and corruption, and the earth would be void and empty. ”

“Don't be limited in your views with regard to your neighbor's virtue...You must enlarge your soul towards each other.”