Where there are difficulties to cope with, and unsatisfactory conditions to overcome, there virtue most flourishes and manifests its glory.
Therefore it is most expedient for the wise, if Don Worm (his conscience) find no impediment to the contrary, to be the trumpet of his own virtues, as I am to myself.
Virtue's office never breaks men's troth.
Virtue that transgresses is but patched with sin; and sin that amends is but patched with virtue.
If our virtues did not go forth of us, it were all alike as if we had them not.
For in the fatness of these pursy times Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg.
But virtue never will be mov'd, Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven.
It is held that valor is the chiefest virtue, and most dignifies the haver.
Sin, that amends, is but patched with virtue.
Kindness nobler ever than revenge.