If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

A city is not adorned by external things, but by the virtue of those who dwell in it.

Mutual affection only leads to co-operation and peace this propagates happiness and prosperity in the society.

Don't expect perfection, it will never happen. You can expect progress if you keep working at it.

Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?

We should, all of us, be filled with gratitude and humility for our present progress and prosperity. We should be filled with awe and joy at what lies over the horizon. And we should be filled with absolute determination to make the most of it.