Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice

Vices are often habits rather than passions.

Vices are often habits rather than passions.

Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

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.

He possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence; courage without ferocity; and all the virtues of man without his vices

He possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence; courage without ferocity; and all the virtues of man without his vices

A vice is a failure of desire.

A vice is a failure of desire.

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.

Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast;
But shall the dignity of vice be lost?

Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast;
But shall the dignity of vice be lost?