"Virtue is not hereditary...." - Quote by Thomas Paine

“Thus commerce, though in itself a moral nullity, has had a considerable influence in tempering the human mind....he trades with the same countries ...(that he) would have gone to war with.”

“A little matter will move a party, but it must be something great that moves a nation.”

“The more men have to lose, the less willing are they to venture.”

“Ambition, the soldier's virtue.”

“The new life created by the final integration is self-aware yet without ego, capable of inhabiting a body yet not attached to it, and guided by wisdom rather than emotion. Whole and virtuous, it can never die.”

“Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues.”

“If you want to know how a man stands, go among the people who are in his same business.”

“The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.”

“A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.”