"Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell. Mercy does not mean not being cruel, or sparing people revenge or punishment; it means a plain and positive thing like the sun, which one has either seen or not seen.
"Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc."
— G.K. Chesterton, "A Piece of Chalk"
