Word: virtuously
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...metaphorical blood flow as he penned a poem. Last and most famed of George Sand's lovers was Frederic null Chopin, of whom a friend said: "There was nothing permanent about him except his cough." Granddaughter Aurore found basis for her belief that George Sand lived a relatively virtuous life in the fact that during the last seven years of their life together she was completely continent for the sake of Chopin's precarious health...
...Russia a 12th Century legend tells of a warrior mighty and virtuous who struck his enemy such a blow that blood rushed to heaven and bones spilled all over the earth. In Manhattan last week a pretty little Russian woman became that warrior, sounded his battle cry heroically. Next minute you could have believed her to be a whole band of Cossacks restlessly awaiting the approaching Tartars. Then she prayed, as a Siberian tribe long-vanished prayed to Kalaidos, its God. These were the stout, earthy beginnings of Nina Tarasova's first U. S. recital in five years...
...noble words of the William and Mary brethren in the preamble to its charter, "Whereas it is repugnant to the liberal principles of Societies, that they should be confined to any particular place, men or Description of men, and as the same should be extended to the wise & virtuous of what ever degree." It had brought as concrete results, an inter-change of ideas with other chapters; the institution of Anniversary Meetings in which the greatest of Harvard's graduates brought new and vital thoughts to the University; the establishment in 1785 of a library...
Another psychoanalytic peep at Lincoln: "Lincoln was a very aggressive person, and hence one would expect him to be also sexually aggressive. According to Herndon, Mr. Lincoln had a strong passion for women. And yet, much to his credit, he lived a pure and virtuous life...
...frankly realistic about this question? We have had enough experience already to convince us that the office does not seek the man. So long as educated and virtuous men play the role of the shrinking violet public offices will be filled by the uneducated, the self-seeking and the corrupt. There is no hope for democracy unless intelligent and honest men run for office. They will have little success in the race for office unless they are trained for it. They will not be well trained unless colleges and universities train them...