“In the South of Spain, one could look to vice as quickly as to virtue for a sense of tradition.”

“It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.”

“Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.”

“Patience is a virtue not a vice.”

“They have extended the arrogance and insularity of the worst kind of academic professionalism beyond the academy. Generally they show no fear or even slight anxiety at the responsibility they have assumed; they have no sense of awe in the face of the questions they have raised, and no sense of humility in the face of the traditions which they condescendingly dismiss. They are aggressively without a sense of mystery and without a suspicion that anything might be too deep for their narrowly professional competence. They mistake these vices for the virtues of thinking radically, courageously and with an unremitting hostility to obscurantism.”

“Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied,And vice sometime by action dignified.”