Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores

Vices are often habits rather than passions.

Vices are often habits rather than passions.

Vice gets more in this vicious world
Than piety.

Vice gets more in this vicious world
Than piety.

He hadn't a single redeeming vice.

He hadn't a single redeeming vice.

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.

Vice is its own reward

Vice is its own reward

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.

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.