Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow. [Lat., Gloria virtutem tanquam umbra sequitur.]

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

In the approach to virtue there are many steps. [Lat., In virtute sunt multi adscensus.]

It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of dignity. [Lat., Est haec saeculi labes quaedam et macula virtuti invidere, velle ipsum florem dignitatis infringere.]