Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.

I think all the heretics I have known have been virtuous men. They have the virtue of fortitude, or they would not venture to own their heresy; and they cannot afford to be deficient in any of the other virtues, as they would give advantage to their many enemies; and they have not, like orthodox sinners, such a number of friends to excuse or justify them.

To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote.

Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright

You may be more happy than Princes, if you will be more virtuous.