One school of modern writers maintains that all virtues are but vices disguised; another, that all vices are but virtues misdirected. As these terms are entirely relative, both schools are right,—and wrong.
So long as war is possible, a perfected social life is impossible; but when Justice will not be listened to in any lower notes, she must speak through the mouths of cannons.
Peace, not happiness, is the reward of virtue.
The man who professes duty as the sole guide of his life is either hypocritical or ignorant.