Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
That's something Mary Lou Williams used to tell me: If you're not feeling right about what you're doing and you play a minor tune it all comes back, falls into place. I don't know if that's true, but I do it.
It is hard to describe the thrill of creative joy which the artist feels when the conviction seizes her that at last she has caught the very soul of the character she wishes to portray, in the music and action which reveal it.
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
Virtue is an inner strength. It expands your nature.
The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.
Virtue is insufficient temptation.
Virtue is harmony.