Nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring p modestly around read more

Nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring p modestly around it. Then you'll have the miser who's no liar; and the drunkard who's the benefactor of the whole city.

Saint Augustine! well hast thou said,
That of our vices we can frame
A ladder, if we read more

Saint Augustine! well hast thou said,
That of our vices we can frame
A ladder, if we will but tread
Beneath our feet each deed of shame.

One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.

One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.

If individuals have no vices, their virtues may be of use to us.

If individuals have no vices, their virtues may be of use to us.

This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.

This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.

O, what a mansion have those vices got
Which for their habitation chose out thee,
Where beauty's read more

O, what a mansion have those vices got
Which for their habitation chose out thee,
Where beauty's veil doth cover every blot
And all things turns to fair that eyes can see!

And last the Vice and Follies of the Age.

And last the Vice and Follies of the Age.

To sanction Vice, and hunt Decorum down.

To sanction Vice, and hunt Decorum down.

If you don't want anyone to know it, don't do it.

If you don't want anyone to know it, don't do it.