The willing contemplation of vice is vice.

The willing contemplation of vice is vice.

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have read more

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice

And last the Vice and Follies of the Age.

And last the Vice and Follies of the Age.

The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.

The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.

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.

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.

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

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

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.