“Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will giveyou a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour.”

“virtue does not spring from riches, but riches and all other human blessings, both private and public, from virtue.”

“Necessary policemen, firemen, street cleaners, health officers, judges, legislators and executives perform productive services as important as those of anyone in private industry. They make it possible for private industry to function in an atmosphere of law, order, freedom and peace. But their justification consists in the utility of their services. It does not consist in the "purchasing power" they possess by virtue of being on the public payroll.”

“To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless. She's earned it, it's a payment, not a gift. But to love her for her vices is a real gift, unearned and undeserved. To love her for her vices is to defile all virtue for her sake - and that is a real tribute of love, because you sacrifice your conscience, your reason, your integrity and your invaluable self-esteem.”

“... he had learned from repeated error not to ignore these quiet proddings, whether of conscience or of God.”

“Your private self must become the same as your public self.”