Jonathan V. Last quotes:

Aristotle deemed courage to be the first virtue, because it makes all the other possible.

Virtues are the internal qualities that allow us to be our best selves and enable us to lead complete and fulfilling lives.

One of the mitigating benefits of children is that they make a Lego habit more respectable.

Anyone can dig a ditch. There's no way to dig smarter. Or dig faster. Having a baby is like being assigned to dig a ditch. That goes all the way to the horizon.

If you do believe in God, and your first instinct in all things must be gratitude: for creation, or love, for mercy.

Justice is the virtue we 'd rather have done unto others than practiced on ourselves.

Since the late 1970s, 163 million female babies have been aborted by parents seeking sons.

Believe it or not, philosophy has consequences.

No single virtue is, on its own, necessarily virtuous.