It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

In this country [England] it is good to kill an admiral from time to time, to encourage the others. The reference is to Admiral John Byng, who was executed in 1757 for failing to prevent the French from taking Minorca.

No, nothing has the power to part me from you; our love is based upon virtue, and will last as long as our lives.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

Virtue debases itself in justifying itself.