“Of all fragrances, the sweetest is that of virtue.”
“In justice lies the sweetest fragrance of liberty, in injustice abides the most painful death.”
“The fire. The odor of burning juniper is the sweetest fragrance on the face of the earth, in my honest judgment; I doubt if all the smoking censers of Dante's paradise could equal it. One breath of juniper smoke, like the perfume of sagebrush after rain, evokes in magical catalysis, like certain music, the space and light and clarity and piercing strangeness of the American West. Long may it burn.”
“This sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all her faults.”
“It was mostly sweet," he whispered, "and you were the sweetest of all.”
“Empathy is the greatest virtue. From it, all virtues flow. Without it, all virtues are an act.”