Quote

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.

Oaths are the fossils of piety.

Honor lies in honest toil.

In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.

Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.

I didn't study theology out of piety. I studied it because I wanted to know.

Honor is the reward of virtue.

Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.