“The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.”

“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”

“Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul”

“What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.”

“Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule.”

“The divine bards are the friends of my virtue, of my intellect, of my strength. They admonish me that the gleams which flash across my mind are not mine, but God's; they had the like, and were not disobedient to the heavenly vision”

“He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.”