He needs must go that the devil drives: Sic virtus sine censu languet.

"Ornabat pietas et grata modestia vatem," wrote his brother Gabriel, "Sancta fides, dictique memor, munitaque recto Justitia, et nullo patientia victa labore, Et constans virtus animi, et elementia mitis, Ambitione procul pulsa fastûsque tumore; Credere uti posses natum felicibus horis, Felici fulgente astro

[Ovid]; beauty born of murmuring sound [Wordsworth]; flowers preach to us if we will hear [C.G. Rossetti]; gratior ac pulchro veniens in corpore virtus [Lat.]

[Brydges]; vivit post funera virtus

[G.]; virtue the greatest of all monarchies [Swift]; virtus laudatur et alget

[Juvenal]; virtus vincit invidiam [Lat.].

For the custom of disputants is not so much to destroy one another's reason as to cavil at the manner of expressing it, right or wrong; for they believe Dolus an virtus, &c., ought to be allowed in controversy as war, and he that gets the victory on any terms whatsoever deserves it and gets it honourably.

If you shall ask a reason of this, 'tis to exercise our patience; for as [1250]Tertullian holds, Virtus non est virtus, nisi comparem habet aliquem, in quo superando vim suam ostendat 'tis to try us and our faith, 'tis for our offences, and for the punishment of our sins, by God's permission they do it, Carnifices vindictae justae Dei, as Tolosanus styles them, Executioners of his will; or rather as David, Ps. 78.

If you shall ask a reason of this, 'tis to exercise our patience; for as [1250]Tertullian holds, Virtus non est virtus, nisi comparem habet aliquem, in quo superando vim suam ostendat 'tis to try us and our faith, 'tis for our offences, and for the punishment of our sins, by God's permission they do it, Carnifices vindictae justae Dei, as Tolosanus styles them, Executioners of his will; or rather as David, Ps. 78.

"laudataque virtus Crescit, et immensum gloria calcar habet.

So did Scipio and Laelius, "Qui ubi se a vulgo et scena in secreta remorant, Virtus Scipiadae et mitis sapientia Laeli, Nugari cum illo, et discincti ludere, donec Decoqueretur olus, soliti" "Valorous Scipio and gentle Laelius, Removed from the scene and rout so clamorous, Were wont to recreate themselves their robes laid by, Whilst supper by the cook was making ready.

Omnis enim res, virtus, fama, decus, divina, humanaque pulchris Divitiis parent.

Non tam mari quam proelio virtus, etiam lecto exhibetur: vincetur aut vincet; aut tu febrem relinques, aut ipsa te.

virtus quietem parat, quies otium, otium porro luxum generat, luxus interitum, a quo iterum ad saluberrimas, &c. 3739.

Saepe mero caluisse virtus.

Gratior est pulchro veniens e corpore virtus.

The festival of Honor and of Virtus he transferred to the days which are at present theirs.

Lachrymæque decoræ, Gratior et pulchro veniens in corpore Virtus.

The brain may be large, but the manhood, the "virtus," is small, where such things are allowed, much more where they are gloried in.

It will conduce little to the valour, "virtus," manhood of any Englishman to be informed by any poet, even in the most melodious verse, illustrated by the most startling and pan cosmic metaphors.

The initials of the bride and bridegroom, and the date of the marriage, are cut upon them, together with the family coat of arms, which bears, among other heraldic devices, two laurel leaves and the motto, Virtus semper viridis.

"VIRTUE ([Greek: Aretahe], Virtus) as well as most of its Species, are all Feminine, perhaps from their Beauty and amiable appearance.

In 1827, when all bad feeling had subsided, Lord Dalhousie, the then English governor of Canada, ordered the erection at Quebec of an obelisk in marble bearing the names and busts of Wolfe and Montcalm, with this inscription: Mortem virtus communem, famam historia, monumentum posteritas dedit [Valor, history, and posterity assigned fellowship in death, fame, and memorial].

The motto of Froude's Remains, which embodied his characteristic temper, was an expression of the feeling of the school: Se sub serenis vultibus Austera virtus occulit:

New furniture was sent from Moscow; spittoons, bells, and washhand basins were introduced; the breakfast was served in a novel fashion; foreign wines replaced the old national spirits and liquors; new liveries were given to the servants, and to the family coat of arms was added the motto, "In recto virtus.