We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.

Rectitude is a perpetual victory, celebrated not by cries of joy but by serenity, which is joy fixed or habitual.

...[T]he really important thing is not to live, but to live well... [a]nd to live well means the same thing as to live honourably or rightly...

Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him

O may I join the choir invisible
Of those immortal dead who live again
In minds made better by their presence; live
In pulses stirred to generosity,
In deeds of daring rectitude...

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.