Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues. – Oliver Wendell Holmes,Jr.

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. – Aristotle

Piety and corruption go together like hot dogs and mustard. They have to. No one can fulfill the demands of piety; as a daily demand, it is inhuman. So it inspires the opposite—just for the sheer health of the body, if not the soul. – Norman Mailer, “Primitive Man, Art and Science, Evil and Judgment,” The Spooky A

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. – Aristotle