To be a virtuous person is to display, by acts of will, all or at least most of the six ubiquitous virtues: wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, temperance, and transcendence.
Schimmelpenninck is too virtuous for the century in which we live.
In every good man a God doth dwell.
God sure esteems the growth and completing of one virtuous person, more that the restraint of ten vicious.
Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.
Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man.
I think opinions should be judged by their influences and effects; and if a man holds none that tend to make him less virtuous or more vicious, it may be concluded that he holds none that are dangerous, which I hope is the case with me.
